Zhang Li

Zhang Li was born in Hebei in 1971. She holds a doctorate in literature and is a professor, doctoral supervisor and vice dean at the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, as well as vice chair of the Beijing Writers Association. She has long engaged in the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature and women's literature, and is the author of such works as The Landscape of Fiction and The Firebearer. She received the Literature Theory and Criticism Award at the 8th Lu Xun Literature Prize. Her work spans research and anthology editing: her representative titles include the English-Chinese edition of the Anti-Utopian Trilogy, We, and Zongzi Weicheng: A View of Chinese Society from 1000 to 250 BCE through Archaeological Materials, as well as women's literature anthologies such as Bright Moon and Plum Blossoms: Selected Chinese Women's Fiction of 2023 and Flowing Water Today: Selected Chinese Women's Prose of 2023. She is also the author of I See Countless Versions of Her: Thirty Nights Talking with Girls about Literature and Film and Sun Li: The Fragrant Charm of Lotus Literature. The database holds 28 of her works, covering fine fiction, classic works, history, social fiction, prose and biography, reflecting a scope that reaches across literary criticism, women's writing and humanistic historical reading.