Christian Y. Schmidt (born 1956) is a German author who spends more time living in Beijing than in Berlin. He studied psychology, literature, history and philosophy in Trier and Bielefeld and served for many years as an editor of the German satirical magazine Titanic. His first book, a biography of the then German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, (1998) was a major success in Germany. In 2008, he published a book about his travels through China called Allein unter 1,3 Milliarden (“Alone Among 1.3 Billion”), which made the Spiegel’s bestseller list. This book was also published in Chinese as 独自在13亿人中 at Central Compilation & Translation Press (2010).  In his just released debut novel Der letzte Huelsenbeck (The Last Huelsenbeck; April 2018), Schmidt sends his protagonists on a mysterious journey between Hong Kong, Berlin and Mexico, at the end of whose tortuously convoluted paths lies a solution nobody would have expected.