Chi Zijian is the author of The Last Quarter of the Moon, which received the Mao Dun Literary Award, the highest honor for a novelist in China. She is also the only Chinese writer to have won the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Award three times for outstanding accomplishment in short fiction. Chi was born in Mohe, China, in 1964 and splits her time between there and the city of Harbin. Her other work includes Manchuria; A Clouded Light; White Snow, Black Raven, and others, and has been translated into many languages.
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Books by Chi Zijian
Fiction
A Novel
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The North American debut of one of China’s most celebrated authors, “Chi Zijian’s beautifully realised novel offers a detailed portrait of a way of life hard to imagine today” (The Independent).