About the author
Mo Ran is a Chinese author of books, about whom limited public information is available; details such as dates of birth and death, nationality, and an English name have not been clearly recorded. Ten of the author's works are held in the collection, including Flowers Heavy on the Brocade City, Good Rain Knows the Season, The Golden Age, Counterintelligence 1949, The Great Aircraft Chronicle, Fusion, Chinese Financiers, and The Youthful Years. The works span a considerable range of subjects, and the common categories include social fiction, war and military fiction, and alternate-world fantasy, showing that the author's writing is not confined to a single field: there are social narratives close to real life that portray the changes of the times, military-themed works drawing on the historical background around 1949, and imaginative writing with an alternate-world flavor. Judging from the titles, the author pays attention to realistic issues such as urban life, finance, and industry, and tends to reflect social progress through the fates of characters. External material on the author's personal experience and writing style is currently limited, and readers may learn more about the author's writing through the works mentioned above.
Written (11)
Rating 3.5★ Flowers Heavy on the Brocade City 莫然 · 2026 Flowers Bloom over the Brocade City follows the 1994–2010 Chengdu "Comprehensive Regulation of the Funan River Project" as its main storyline, continu… Rating 3.4★ Good Rain Knows the Season 莫然 · 2024 A sweeping story of the Republican era, a grand historical canvas. It tells of a city's worldly ways and brings to life the brilliant youth of a group… Rating 3.4★ The Golden Age 莫然 TIANDI PRESS · 2024 Spanning the financial reforms from the 1980s to the late 1990s, this book tells the story of a group of exceptional high-level elites of strikingly d… Rating 3.1★ Defection 1949 莫然 Northern China Women & Children Publishing House · 2023 In the autumn of 1949, the Second Field Army of the PLA was preparing to advance into the Southwest, and Chengdu, the central city, was on the verge o… Rating 3.1★ The Big Aircraft Storm 莫然 · 2023 This book is dedicated to my alma mater, Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has nurtured so many aviation elites; to my classmates and colle… Rating 3.0★ Biography of Consort Qiu of the Great Tang 莫然 · 2023 Yuanhe 7, Tang Dynasty. Grand, towering palace complexes, prosperous and splendid. Lanterns and decorations everywhere, as if for a great celebration.… Rating 3.0★ Chinese Financiers 莫然 · 2023 This book is dedicated to those who, years ago, devoted themselves to China's financial reform and gave their heart and effort to the establishment of… Rating 3.0★ Youth 莫然 · 2023 Ling Hong stood on a high spot on the earthen slope, looking out over the construction site—beneath her feet was a nearly dry riverbed, and the stagna… Rating 3.0★ Fusion 莫然 PLA Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Stable-operation fusion reactors generate energy the same way the sun does, and are therefore also called "artificial suns." Because fusion fuel consi… Rating 2.9★ Moon Crossing Lost Souls 莫然 · 2023 Gan Xiaowan, a Beijing netizen, is a devoted fan of Nalan Xingde, the celebrated Qing-dynasty poet. She and a group of online friends often meet to di… Super Divine Eye System 莫然 3G Book City Li Ran works in the antiques trade at the foot of the old city wall with his master, Qin Bazhi. On a trip to an Inner Mongolian tomb from the Yuan dyn…Publishers
3G Book CityNorthern China Women & Children Publishing HouseTIANDI PRESSPLA Literature and Art Publishing House