Ma Boyong

Ma Boyong, whose real name is Ma Li, was born in 1980 in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. He is an ethnic Manchu contemporary Chinese writer and screenwriter. Since 2005 he has published works online, writing across historical nonfiction, mystery and suspense, and social fiction. His representative works include Feng Qi Long Xi, The Antique Bureau, The Longest Day in Chang'an, and The Lychees of Chang'an, and many of his books have been adapted into films and television series. He has received the People's Literature Award, the Zhu Ziqing Prose Award, and the Galaxy Award. His writing often builds on real history, weaving suspense and imagination into meticulous research, with a brisk narrative pace that combines erudition and readability. The library holds 41 of his works, including the Da Yi series, Two Capitals in Fifteen Days, and Under the Microscope: The Ming Dynasty, spanning subjects from ancient medicine and Ming-era case records to contemporary urban mysteries, reflecting his dual concern with history and the present.