Zhou Rui

Zhou Rui, whose original name is Zhou Qingning, was born in Nanjing in 1953, with ancestral roots in Chaoyang, Guangdong. He is a Chinese children's literature writer and a member of the China Writers Association. After junior middle school, he worked in farming and later as a sailor and a steel mill worker, before becoming an editor at Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House; around 1979 he turned to writing children's literature. His works cover a wide range of subjects. Alongside representative titles such as Humorous Three Kingdoms, Humorous Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Big Mouse and Little Cat, and Chinese Rabbit, German Grass, he has written the Enjoyable Peking Opera series, which introduces children to traditional opera through stories such as Farewell My Concubine, The Orphan of Zhao, The Empty City Stratagem, The White Snake, and Wu Song Beats the Tiger, as well as The Child Who Blew the Whale Whistle. His writing spans folk literature, documentary literature, and science fiction, and he has won the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award and the Soong Ching Ling Children's Literature Award multiple times.