Ye Zhaoyan is one of China’s bestselling and most acclaimed writers. Born and based in Nanjing, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University. Many of his books have been translated into English and other languages, including A Flower's Shade (Simon & Schuster), Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (Columbia University Press), How Stubborn Our Hearts (Simon & Schuster), Other People's Love (Simon & Schuster). It is worth mentioning that YE Zhaoyan is the grandson of YE Shengtao (1894-1988), one of China's most influential educators, founder of the Association for Literary Studies, the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement (1919) in China.
