Li Juan is a prolific Chinese essayist born in Xinjiang in 1979 and raised in Sichuan. Widely regarded as one of the best narrative nonfiction writers of her generation, Li Juan's writing has won several awards. Winter Pasture is considered to be her most popular and representative work.
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Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take the... SEE MORE