Pan Xiangli is a Shanghai-based novelist, doctor of literature and a newspaper editor. Her novels include White Lotus, Without Dreams, Ten Year Cup, Delta, I Love the Cello and Female Boss. She has also written essays on tea culture and the study of ancient poetry. Her novels have featured five times on the Chinese Novel List (sponsored by the Chinese Society of Novels, 2002-2007), and won the fourth Lu Xun Literature Award, the Tenth Zhuang Wen Wen Literature Award, the Fifth Bing Xin Prose Prize, and the Fifth Session Prose awards, among other national literary awards. Her stories have been translated into many languages including English, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Greek. Her story collection White Michelia has been published in English.