蒋林

Public information about Jiang Lin is limited, and his nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name remain unknown. Judging from the four works collected here—The Despair Collection Room, My Neighbor Is a Giant Panda, The Panda and the Boy, and Story or Reality—he is an author with a fairly diverse range of subjects. These works are classified under social fiction, otherworldly mainland, and classic works, suggesting that he attends to real social issues while also attempting stories with a fantastical flavor, as well as writing centered on giant pandas. Based on the available information, Jiang Lin's writing spans both the realistic and the imaginative, and his choice of subjects is relatively flexible. Because reliable biographical material is lacking, his education, writing career, and social influence cannot be introduced for now; readers may gain a sense of his writing through the works mentioned above.