Moonlight Warrior

by Hong Ying

A boy who was rescued by a hero and had a kind heart. The nurse Qin Jiahui, who he met in the hospital, was a great beauty from Chongqing---- This story is the kind of like in the bones, the yearning and hallucinations of every boy's adolescence. Qin Jiahui is a Chinese-Japanese mixed race. Her mother was sent back to Japan in the 1950s. The father and daughter were discriminated against. After growing up, Qin Jiahui was well-known and coveted by many people because of her descent. She chose to marry a mixed society. Yang Gangbang of Yang has fallen into the abyss...

384 pages, Hardcover

Published July 1, 2021

About the author

Hong Ying was born in Chongqing in 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories. After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she as writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993-1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.

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