Guo Mei

Guo Mei, born in Hangzhou in December 1967, is a professor at the School of Cultural Creativity and Media at Hangzhou Normal University, and is also known as a writer, scholar and literary critic. She received her Master of Arts from East China Normal University in 1992, studying Yuan, Ming and Qing drama under Jiang Xingyu, which gave her a solid academic foundation. Her publications number more than fifty, including monographs, novels, essay collections and biographies. Representative works include Studies of Zhejiang Women Playwrights and A History of Hangzhou Drama, and she has received awards such as the Bing Xin Prose Award, the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Award and the Zhejiang Literary Criticism Award. Seventeen of her works are included in the collection, mainly in the categories of general biography and management. In biography she has written lives of figures such as Qigong, Ji Xianlin, Qian Xuesen, Huang Yongyu, Liang Sili, Ding Cong and Zou Heng, with a plain style grounded in historical fact and a gift for revealing character through everyday detail; her management titles focus on institutional and operational practice, showing the breadth of her cross-disciplinary writing.