Yang Hongying (born 12 May 1962) is a best-selling Chinese writer of children's fiction, who has been called "China's J. K.
[2] By her own account, she did not read much in early childhood, but as a teen she became fascinated with Chinese classical novels such as Water Margin and Dream of the Red Chamber.
[1] When a Shanghai children's newspaper began publishing her stories, she became more widely known and received a book contract.
In the early 1990s, she became chief editor at a children's magazine, and began writing a series of short stories known in English as Mo's Mischief, about a naughty but kind boy named Ma Xiaotiao (Mo Shen Ma in the English version).
[2] In 2010, she ranked first in the "Fifth China Rich Writers List"[5] In 2012, she published a collection of essays "Reasons for Loving Zaizai".