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Notable works
Stars in the Deep Sea 2Stars in the Deep Sea 1Living Alone

13 written works

About the author

Dumu Zhou is a Chinese author known for young-adult literature and personal essays. Her publicly available biographical information is limited, and no systematic account of her life has been disclosed. Thirteen of her works are currently known, including Deep Sea Stars 1 and Deep Sea Stars 2, Living Alone, the two-volume Dumu Zhou: A Grain of Red Dust series, She Walked Through the Rainstorm, You Are My Exclusive Memory, Crown of Thorns, and A Person Hidden in a Sea of People. These works suggest that her writing centers on youthful growth, emotional experience, and individual life, spanning both fiction and essays: the fiction emphasizes character relationships and emotional development, while the essays lean toward everyday observation and self-reflection. Her style is delicate and attentive to detail and inner feeling, giving her a recognizable presence among readers of young-adult literature.

Written (13)

Living Alone cover
Rating 3.8
Living Alone 独木舟 Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is a collection of essays portraying the lives of women who live alone. Living alone is the starting point of truly entering adulthood for everyo…
One Body Hidden in a Sea of Ten Thousand People cover
Rating 3.3
One Body Hidden in a Sea of Ten Thousand People 独木舟 Shandong Publishing House of Literature and Art · 2026 A new edition of Wàn Rén Rú Hǎi Yī Shēn Cáng, the classic essay collection by bestselling author Dúmùzhōu. Clumsily yet sincerely, she steps outward; …
A Grain of Red Dust cover
Rating 3.2
A Grain of Red Dust 独木舟 Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 A representative full-length novel by Dujuzhou, now in a tenth-anniversary collector's edition. A novel of women's growth about girls' youth, careers,…
Stars in the Deep Sea 1 cover
Rating 3.9
Stars in the Deep Sea 1 独木舟 Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 The girl Cheng Luoxun falls in love with Zhou Muchen — the first time she has loved someone so bravely, and the first time she has met with betrayal i…
Stars in the Deep Sea 2 cover
Rating 3.9
Stars in the Deep Sea 2 独木舟 Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 A girl named Cheng Luxun falls in love with Zhou Muchen. It is the first time she has loved someone bravely, and the first time she suffers betrayal. …
Dumu Zhou's A Grain of Red Dust Series (Two Volumes) cover
Rating 3.8
Dumu Zhou's A Grain of Red Dust Series (Two Volumes) 独木舟 · 2023 This series collects Dushuzhou's Yi Li Hongchen 1 and Yi Li Hongchen 2, the original novels behind the TV drama of the same name starring Nicky Wu and…
She Passed Through the Rainstorm cover
Rating 3.7
She Passed Through the Rainstorm 独木舟 Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 A major new book from Dumuzhou. In this life, only by passing through the rainstorms of living can you find your true self. Everyone has one or two th…
Crown of Thorns cover
Rating 3.6
Crown of Thorns 独木舟 Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 This collection gathers all of Du Muzhou's essays from the past decade, half of them never published before. Written over at least six consecutive yea…
You Are My Exclusive Memory cover
Rating 3.6
You Are My Exclusive Memory 独木舟 Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Life is but a temporary sojourn. Someone once said that reading ten thousand books is no match for traveling ten thousand miles. I have not yet read t…
Amid a Sea of Ten Thousand People, One Keeps Himself Hidden cover
Rating 3.5
Amid a Sea of Ten Thousand People, One Keeps Himself Hidden 独木舟 · 2023 At thirty, nothing is freer than becoming yourself! As the years pass, everyone, in many unguarded moments, feels the loneliness of not fitting into t…
A Grain of Red Dust II cover
Rating 3.4
A Grain of Red Dust II 独木舟 · 2023 Ye Zhaojue and Jian Chenye once shared a youth of incomparable freshness and beauty, but when a lovely campus romance moves into society and faces one…
I Too Have Wandered Long: Tenth Anniversary Beloved Edition cover
Rating 3.4
I Too Have Wandered Long: Tenth Anniversary Beloved Edition 独木舟 Taihai Publishing House · 2023 The underlying tone of I Have Drifted Long is solitude. It is the vast world seen through one small person and a handful of small things. It is not a …
A Grain of Red Dust cover
Rating 3.4
A Grain of Red Dust 独木舟 China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House · 2023 Sometimes life can fulfill a love; sometimes it can drive a love to madness. Sometimes youth can realize our ideals; sometimes youth is only a dark to…

Publishers

China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing HouseTaihai Publishing HouseTaibai Literature and Art Publishing HouseShandong Publishing House of Literature and ArtChunfeng Literature and Art Publishing HouseHuashan Literature and Art Publishing House