赵爽

Zhao Shuang is a Chinese author of books on plants, animals, and the natural history found in classical literature. Public information about her is limited; four of her works are currently available. Her writing falls mainly into popular science and literary appreciation. In Humanistic Plants: The Origins, Domestication and Worship of 16 Plants, she traces common plants through history and culture. Flowers in a Dream: Plants and Women in Dream of the Red Chamber sets plant imagery alongside the novel's female characters, combining close literary reading with natural-history interest. A Lively Short History of Animals and Plants presents biological knowledge in an accessible style, while A Bestiary of Journey to the West offers readings of the monsters in that classic novel. Her work links scientific knowledge, literary texts and everyday observation in plain, readable prose suited to general readers.