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Lihong Xiao
🇹🇼Taiwan
Lihong Xiao (蕭麗紅) crafted in A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers one of Taiwanese literature's most beloved novels — a lyrical portrait of life in a small southern Taiwan town that won the United Daily News Literary Award. The novel follows a young woman's coming of age through the rhythms of family, tradition, and the natural world, rendered with the delicacy of classical Chinese poetry.
Xiao writes about rural Taiwan with deep affection and without nostalgia, capturing a world of folk customs, religious festivals, and familial bonds with precision and warmth. A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers belongs alongside the best pastoral fiction from any tradition — a novel that finds in one small place the whole of human experience.
