About Chi Zijian Books
Chi Zijian received the Mao Dun Literary Award--the highest honor for a novelist in China--for The Last Quarter of the Moon, which has been translated into ten languages. She is known for her writing that touches on the folklore of Northeast China and is the only Chinese writer to have won the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Award three times for outstanding accomplishment in short fiction and novella. Her other work includes Manchuria; Atop the Mountains; and White Snow, Black Raven, and has been translated into many languages. Zijian was born in Mohe, China, in 1964 and splits her time between there and the city of Harbin.Bruce Humes is the translator of the bestseller Shanghai Baby and now specializes in translating writing by/about China-based Altaic peoples and Silk Road culture. Since 2009 he has hosted the blog Ethnic ChinaLit. He lives in Taiwan and is studying Turkish.
