author
Qi Xiao
Known for fast-moving Chinese urban and historical web fiction, this novelist built a wide readership with stories that mix action, social observation, and strong dramatic momentum. A former engineer turned full-time writer, he has also seen his work adapted for the screen.
1 Audiobook
拾遺記
by active 4th century Jia Wang, Zhiping Qi, Qi Xiao
About the author
Before becoming known online as Xiao Qi Xiao, he worked as an electrical automation engineer. Later he moved into writing and became a well-known Chinese web novelist, with published works dating back to 2007.
His novels include Iron Age, Martial Empire, Orange Age, National Peerless, Spring and Autumn Old House, A Loser's Counterattack, and Crime Investigation Bureau. He is also a member of the China Writers Association, studied at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature, and served as a mentor in the first Online Literature League.
Some of his fiction has reached a wider audience through adaptation, including Age of Legends. Public biographical listings also give his pen name in Chinese as 骁骑校 and list his birth date as January 15, 1977.