Bi Shumin 毕淑敏, (born 1952 in Xinjiang) is a Chinese novelist, self-help writer and psychiatrist.
[1][2] Born in Yili to a Shandong family, she grew up in Beijing and as a young woman served as nurse and psychiatrist in Tibet.
[4] She is also a well-known media presence, based according to one academic analysis on the "charismatic authority claim" that she lives a "balanced and happy life.
The title and "much of the novel’s source material came from Bi Shumin’s own observations during the anti-SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) battle of 2003 in China.
"[8][9] Several examples of both fiction and essays have been translated into English, and her work has attracted critical attention especially from those interested in gender in contemporary Chinese literature and the depiction of medicine and illness.