Zhang Yueran

Zhang was born in 1982 in Jinan, Shandong. She is an only child. Her father was a professor at Shandong University, and he was very keen on literature.^[2]

Zhang is an alumnus of Shandong Experimental High School, Shandong University and National University of Singapore.^[3][4][5]

Her main works include short stories and novels. She won the 2001 New Concept Writing Competition organised by Mengya magazine.^[6] She is often labeled as part of a group of successful Chinese authors known as the "post-'80s" generation.^{[7][8][9][10]}

In 2011 she participated in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.^[11]

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Currently, Zhang is a teacher of Literary Studies in Renmin University of China.^[12] Several of her works have been translated into English by Jeremy Tiang, as well as into various other languages.

• Ten Loves (2004)
• The Promise Bird (2006)
• Cocoon (2022)
• Women, Seated (2025)

• 《葵花走失在1890》 (Sunflowers Got Lost in 1890)
• 《樱桃之远》 (Cherry Story)
• 《是你来检阅我的忧伤了吗》 (You Come to My Sorrow)
• 《十爱》 (Ten Love Stories)
• 《水仙已乘鲤鱼去》 (Narcissus)
• 《誓鸟》 (Birds of Swear)
• 《鲤系列》 (Carp Series)
• 《昼若夜房间》 (A Room of Day and Night)
• 《繭》 (Cocoon)
• 《大乔小乔》 (Unseen Sister)
• 《顿悟时刻》 (Moment of Epiphany)
• 《天鹅旅馆》（Hotel Zwaan)
• 《动物形状的烟火》(Animal Shaped Fireworks)
• 《吉诺的跳马》(Jinuode Tiaoma)

• Unseen Sisrer (大乔小乔) – adapted into the television series The Bright One (许我耀眼)。

Cast

• Zhao Lusi as Xu Yan
• Chen Weiting as Shen Haoming
• Wan Peng as Qiao Lin
• Tang Xiaotian as Yu Yiming
• Guan Ziqing as Lin Tao
• Zhong Yating as Fang Lei
• Wang Yiyao as Sun Siwei
• Xu Yajun as Shen Jinsong
• Wen Zhengrong as Yu Lan
• Fan Shiqi as Jiang Liang
• Feng Hui as Qiao Jianbin
• Liu Min as Wang Yazhen

and the work was also adapted into the film The Unseen Sister (2024), directed by Zhao Deyin.

Cast

• Zhao Liying,
• Xin Zhilei,
• Huang Jue
• Dong Baoshi.