Zhang Yueran

Zhang Yueran, born in Jinan, Shandong, in 1982, is a contemporary Chinese writer and a teacher at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. She began publishing at the age of 14 and won first prize in the National New Concept Writing Competition. She is the author of novels including Sunflowers Lost in 1890, Ten Loves, The Distance of Cherry Trees, The Narcissus Has Ridden the Carp Away, Oath Bird and Cocoon, and serves as editor-in-chief of the Li series. Her work spans social fiction and prose, with representative titles such as The Boat Goes Slower and Slower: Fa Li·Short Stories (Harvest Five-Year Collection 2018–2022), The Elder Qiao and the Younger Qiao (the original novel behind the TV drama Xu Wo Yao Yan), Peace Under Heaven: The First “Wang Zengqi Chinese Fiction Award” Winning Novellas and Short Stories, and Moments of Epiphany, Li·Time Capsule, Li·Anonymous Writers, Li·I Went to 2000 and Li·Writing Class. Her writing attends closely to youth experience and family relationships, combining narrative tension with an introspective temperament; in recent years she has also taken part in literary editing and writing instruction through the Li series. Public information is limited, and details of her life follow the sources available here.