The words I have chosen here are all connected to my life in the Altai Mountains. I spent much of my childhood in the Fuyun region of Xinjiang, in the far north of the Altai Mountains, before I moved with my family to Altai to live next to nomadic Kazakh herders. In Altai, nature was bathed in white... On cloudy days, I saw the world pure white and bright. On bright days, I used to see it shining in white mixed with the blue of the sky. On some days, the temperature drops to more than forty degrees Celsius below zero, and heavy snow blocks the windows, plunging the place into darkness.
Li Jiyuan, Li Jiyuan, is a contemporary Chinese writer. In 1999, she began writing newspaper columns, and in 2003, she published her first book, Nine Essays on Snow. In 2010, she published her book "Altai Corners", which won the "Maotai Folk Literature Cup". In 2017, she published a collection of articles entitled “The Sunflower Field,” for which she won the “Lushon Literary Award” in its seventh session.
Series supervisor: Dr. Hassanein Fahmy Hussein, Professor in the Department of Chinese Language, Ain Shams University, has published many translations from Chinese to Arabic and vice versa. He received the “Youth Award for Translation” from the National Center for Translation, the “Distinguished Contribution to Translation Award,” which is the largest award granted by China to foreign translators, and the “Sheikh Award Hamad Foundation for Translation and International Understanding” and has published books in Arabic and Chinese.
