Born in Shaoxing, Xie grew up during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s and attended the Jiang-an school of dramatic art in Szechuan, where he studied Ibsen, Shakespeare and Chekhov.

• 生于绍兴，成长于日寇入侵的二十世纪三十年代，进入位于四川江安的国立戏剧专科学校，在那里学习......