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Su Yang is an author about whom limited public information is available; neither nationality, dates of birth and death, nor an English name has been clearly recorded, and four works by this author are held in the collection. Judging from the existing works, Su Yang's writing spans a fairly wide range of subjects: Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains and Shadows of Blade and Light lean toward otherworldly-continent and fantasy narrative, 101 Highway is closer to documentary literature and social fiction, while The Female Proprietor of Guotang Row carries the flavor of social and premium fiction. This movement across different genres shows an interest in both imagined worlds and real-world concerns, with an ability to construct imaginative plots while attending to social relations and everyday experience. Because verifiable biographical information is insufficient, details of education, career, and creative history cannot be set out here; readers may begin with these four works to appreciate the diversity of the author's narrative orientation and choice of subjects.