Cui Zi'en (Chinese: 崔子恩; pinyin: Cuī Zǐ'ēn), born 1958, in Harbin in the People's Republic of China, is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken LGBT activist based in Beijing.
Cui Zi'en is one of the avant-garde DV makers in Chinese underground film.
He has published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, one of which, Uncle's Past, won the 2001 Radio Literature Award in Germany.
In 2002, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) presented the Felipa de Souza Award to Cui Zi'en.
[2] Cui brought issues of same-sex love into Chinese culture and public awareness, with a prolific crop of critically acclaimed articles, lectures, books, and films, including the first gay novel in modern China.