This annual anthology is a collection of excellent literature works of the year by female writers in contemporary China, showcasing the achievements of women's writing and the important changes in women’s lives in China since the new century. This anthology, with fiction as the main genre, selects literary works from an independent, academic and socially concerned perspective, and aims to cover women of all ages, regions and ethnic groups, so as to display how writers focus on and portray social realities and arrive at different life issues in their different fields in the complex landscape of contemporary China.

Zhang Li is a professor and she is dedicated to the study of Chinese modern and contemporary literature, women’s literature and culture.