Zhou Shujuan is a Chinese author of documentary literature. Public information about her is limited, and only one work can currently be confirmed, namely To Zhenze. Judging from this title and the documentary category to which the work belongs, her writing tends toward using a specific place as a thread, recording on-site observations and stories of people rather than engaging in fiction. Zhenze is an old town in the Jiangnan region; if the title refers to this place, the work most likely centers on local scenery, daily life, and cultural memory, presenting the texture and changes of a particular locale through documentary writing. Such writing usually emphasizes the author's firsthand experience, observation, and interviews, values the truth of detail and plain narration, and carves out a place for itself between local writing and nonfiction. Because reliable records of the author's life, native place, and writing career are unavailable, her personal background and the full scope of her work are difficult to sketch completely, and readers' understanding of her presently rests mainly on this single work, To Zhenze.
