"Twilight and Dancing Bear: A Selection of Chinese Women's Literature in 2022" Author: Zhang Li Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House

This book is a continuation of the 2019-2021 "Annual Selection of Chinese Women's Literature". It is a collection of short and medium-length novels edited by Zhang Li, a famous critic, expert in women's literature research, and professor at Beijing Normal University. In terms of product packaging, this book is more market-oriented and closer to female readers. In terms of book content, this book continues the collection of love, secrets, and distances, and includes the works of 20 Chinese women of different generations in 2022. It represents both a gaze at the current literary scene and a long-term expectation for the future of women's literature. The works of about 20 Chinese female writers of different generations, to a certain extent, outline the creative pedigree of three generations of Chinese female writers, providing readers with a high-quality text to understand the creative status of short and medium-length novels in women's literature in that year over a period of time.

Zhang Li is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Literature of Beijing Normal University. She is one of the "Top Ten Most Popular Teachers for Graduate Students" at Beijing Normal University. She is also the deputy director of the Prose Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and a special researcher at the China Modern Literature Museum.

She has written The Occurrence of Modern Chinese Women's Writing (1898-1925), Landscape of Novels, The Holder of a Small Fire, I Saw Countless Hers, etc. She is the editor-in-chief of Beijing in Essays, Selected Chinese Women's Literature in 2021, Looking at the Clouds: 20 Chinese Short Stories in 2021, The Man with a Lamp: 20 Chinese Essays in 2021, We Boil at Different Temperatures, and Thoughts on Life: Essays for Teenagers. She won the 8th Lu Xun Literary Award for Literary Theory and Criticism, the Outstanding Achievement Award for Chinese Women's Literature, and the Best Chinese Essay Award.