Rong Jiang

The author has worked as a farmer, a factory worker, a university student, a philosophy teacher, and a government employee. Though not a professional writer, she has been deeply inspired by her own turbulent life and by decades of close encounters with the hardships and struggles of China underprivileged. Motivated by a near-sense of mission, she chooses to focus on a seemingly insignificant corner of Chinese society, revealing how ordinary people at the bottom struggle to survive,relying on their diligence, resilience, and kindness, in an environment deprived of basic justice and conscience.