Sheng Xue or Reimonna Sheng (; born 1962), is the pen name of Zang Xihong (), a Chinese-Canadian journalist and writer, and human rights activist. Background Sheng Xue grew up in Beijing, and moved to Canada soon after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Xue is a member of PEN Canada, and also a member of The Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), both of which belong to International PEN. She is a member of the Writers in Prison Committee of ICPC. Xue is the Canadian correspondent of Radio Free Asia and the North American correspondent of Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany). She is also a regular commentator or columnist for a couple of media. In 2001, she received the Canadian Association for Journalists Award for Investigative Journalism, and the Canada's National Magazine Award, for an investigative report, "The Smuggler's Slaves", on the lives of Chinese boat refugees published in the Canadian magazine Maclean's. She is the first Chinese Canadian to win such prestigious awards. In 2005, Sheng won the Journalism and Media Award from the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, for her outstanding achievements, contributions, and community service and in recognition of her efforts in promoting understanding the traditions and the interests of Chinese-Canadian communities, her leadership, courage and dedication for the promotion of multiculturalism, human rights, respect of human and cultural values, integrity and equality among all Canadians. In 2001, Sheng Xue investigated China's most prominent smuggling case and published a book (in Chinese), Unveiling the Yuan Hua Case (), which soon became a best seller in Chinese communities outside mainland China and created shock waves both inside and outside China. The Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China immediately banned the book. A collection of Sheng Xue's poems (in Chinese), Seeking the Soul of Snow (), was published in Jan 2008 by United Writers Press, Hong Kong. The poetry collection has also been banned by authorities in mainland China. United Writers Press also published a collection of Sheng Xue's essays (in Chinese), Lyricism From a Fierce Critic () in August 2008. This book has also been banned in China. She also starred two Canadian movies, Small Pleasures () in 1993, and Chinese Chocolate () in 1995. She also starred a stage drama (in Chinese), He Zhu Xin Pei (), in 1997. Sheng Xue was the Writer in Residence at Carlton University, Ottawa, in the