Ruzhen Li

Little about his personal life is easy to confirm from the sources I found, but Li Ruzhen is widely associated with the Qing dynasty and is best remembered as the author of Flowers in the Mirror.

That novel has had a long afterlife in Chinese literature and in translation. It mixes adventure, the supernatural, playful invention, and commentary on society, which helps explain why it continues to attract new readers.

Because reliable biographical detail was limited in the material I could confirm here, it is safest to remember him through the work itself: a writer whose imagination and satirical touch gave readers one of the most distinctive novels of its era.