Yellow Gold

Yi Zhou is a Chinese novelist born in Xi’an in 1972, and a national committee member of the China Writers Association. He has won the Lu Xun Literary Prize as well as various other literary prizes, and has been selected for inclusion in the 20 Young Chinese Writers in the New Century list. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian and other foreign languages. Hu Zongfeng is the most prolific literary translator of his home province, Shaanxi. He serves as president of the Shaanxi Translators Association and director of the Edgar and Helen Snow Studies Center. He is academic dean of the School of Foreign Languages and director of the Shaanxi Research Institute of Culture and Translation at Xijing University. Robin Gilbank is originally from the North Yorkshire coast. He is now a professor of the School of Foreign Languages, Xijing University. With Hu Zongfeng, he launched the “Shaanxi Stories” series to promote the work of local authors in English translation. He is the author of An Englishman in the Land of Qin (2018) and Exploring China (2018), with the latter being longlisted for the Lu Xun Prize.