About the book
《鼓舞》Healing
Bai Ling was a COVID-19 patient in the largest mobile cabin hospital in Wuhan. She was deeply depressed, being immersed in fear and anxiety all day, always trying to shun the fact that she’s infected and avoid talking. Doctor Guli from Xin Jiang encouraged her with special therapy: songs and Kazakh Dance Black Horse. Listen! There were music and laughter came from the hospital. It was the patients and medics dancing together. Bai Ling finally got rid of the haze of bad mood, regaining her courage to recover and hope for life.
《选择》Choice
Xiao Lin, a native of Wuhan, who had been working outside, chose to go retrograde without hesitation after the COIVD-19 outbreak. He tried to keep it secret from the villagers concerned bout him and devoted himself to the construction of Wuhan Leishenshan Hospital. Despite bad conditions on site, all the workers still worked round the clock at the risk of being infected... Workers avoided language exchange to a large extent to stop the spread of the virus .They made full use of every minute, flame of hope flickering in their eyes, and the hospital is rising up...
《爱笑的宝宝》The Laughing Baby
The Women & Children’s Medical Center admitted a two-year-old patient, baby Xiao Lan. Her whole family were unfortunately infected with the COVID-19. Xiao Lan is too young to express herself. And her parents are separately treated in another hospital. How could medics deal with this little baby? Don’t worry. The nurse and doctor moms always have a method.
《黎明星空》Starry Night at Dawn
Liu Zinian is a high school student of senior three. He always feels misunderstood and estranged with his father, who is a doctor. During the pandemic, aiming to getting close to his secret crush, Liu signed up to be a community volunteer. From the work, Liu gradually understood the anxiety of ordinary people and the challenges his father has always being encountered. In those hard times, Liu and his father became closer to each other. Liu and his peers didn’t choose to kept themselves out of trouble. They choose to become part of the guardians of their community. The night is long and dark. But the dawn is coming…
《因为有你》Because of You
‘Why have you become a nurse given that you hated being hospitalized once?’ A patient in the isolation ward asked Wan Xin curiously. Wan Xin, who served as a male nurse in medical rescue squad, had often been hospitalized because of allergies to foods such as beans, which made him particularly hate hospitalization. But fortunately, he met a doctor who had changed his mind in a warm way. Deeply effected by this mentor for him, he has been passing warmth to his patients since he truly became a nurse.
《城中春》Spring of the City
With COVID-19 pandemic sweeping Wuhan, closed shops, empty streets took place of vitality and prosperity of the city. The delivery drivers, like red blood cells in blood vessels, penetrated into every corner of the city and became the city's feeder. Zhang Sai is a member of them. He had families. He felt scared. he was alarmed by the infection cases and also moved by the kindness of every recipient. Riding on the streets, he felt the changes brought by the pandemic, and began to see the city and life in a new way...This true story was covered by New York Times.
《守护者》Guardian
Some people say that nurses serve people morning to evening; some patients say that it is doctors who save people’s life, while nurses are of less value. Wei Xin, a quiet nurse who loves her job. After the outbreak of COVID-19, she chose to stick to her post, dedicated her best to accompany and take care of every patient. She gave them not only professional care, but also courage and hope to live...
《摆渡人》The Ferryman
Ah Yong is a ride-hailing service driver, living happily with his family. After the Wuhan lockdown, even if the city was paralyzed temporarily, there were still demands on ride-hailing services. After a pick-up of a medical staff by chance, he became a volunteer. “I’m not a hero. But There are things and people I want to protect.” He delivered vegetables to people in quarantine, picked up the elderly for dialysis, sent a daughter to see her dying dad for farewell and many others…If the pandemic is like flood that apart people from each other, Ah Yong is the ferryman to reconnect them.
《幸福驿站》Happiness Station
"I hope that my homestay can make everyone who comes here fall in love with Wuhan!" Luo Ying Xiao Zhan is a homestay that encountered the epidemic soon after its opening and all orders were cancelled. The host saw the medical staff who nearly fainted on the way home and the empty rooms, an idea came to his mind: leaving the rooms to the medical staff who treat patients with COVID-19! So he contacted some other hosts of the homestays, appealing to shoulder the burden of serving the medical staff together...
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About the Author
CAO Shuting, writer of Guardian & Happiness station
Cao Shuting has been engaged in the creation of novels, comics, and film and television scripts for over ten years. She has read many SF works, manga, European and US comics as she grew up. She has published many science fiction works in 'SF-king', a magazine focused on SF, SF comics and popular science. Her work 'Slower Days in the past' is included in a SF collection of award-winning works, in which including works by Liu Cixin, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, etc. She is the writer of the comic " Crystal Sky of Yesterday ", which was adapted into animation later.
HUANG Xiaoying, writer of because of you
Huang Xiaoying, born in Quanzhou, Fujian. Now she is a postgraduate in East China Normal University, major in media and creative writing. Out of passion for writing, she participated in various writing competitions during school, hoping to continuously improve her professional skills through study and practice. One of her favorite cartoons is the one adapted from "Fullmetal Alchemist" created by Japanese manga artist Hiromu Araka, who has affected her creation concept deeply. She is good at thinking and summarizing, from the contemplation of the content of the story, to consciously carving on the narrative technique and improves herself by creation practice.
YANG Jing, writer of The Ferryman
After graduated from Peking University, Yang Jing has worked as a planner and screenwriter in film & TV industry for 15 years. She engaged in planning and script works of many films and TV series. From 2016, Yang became a freelance writer. She tries varies styles and fields for her writing. Also from this year, she began writing comic scripts. Yang Jing is passionate about life. Her observation of life nourishing her writings. She likes hiking, climbing and travelling. When she is away from desk, she likes to go for a walk with her dogs.
Luo Saier, writer of Spring of the City
Luo Saier, has a novel 'Star, Orange and Love' serialized on Starting point Chinese net. She has published more than 70 novels, proses, and travel notes on magazines like Petard. She is keen on comics since childhood and engaged in writing comic scripts. She has worked with Yang Xiaoru, who has won China Animation & Comic Competition Golden Dragon Award. At the same time, she is an English translator, involved in the translation of the Chinese edition of 'Warcraft: Legends'. As a SF fans, she translated Chinese edition of American TV series Supernatural: The Men of Letters Bestiary: Winchester Family Edition corresponding book.
LI Jiaxuan, writer of The Laughing baby & Choice
Li Jiaxuan is a new but award-winning writer from Shantou, Guangdong province. Because of a word from a friend—'I think you are capable to make money by writing', she became a writer. So far she's written multiple works for movies, TV dramas and comics. Ms Li won Golden Dragon Award twice. She loves comics so much that her dream is to read all comics and cartoons in the world while lying on her bed. Now she's on the way to make this dream come true!
Honors:
Lemon Tea & You, 2010 Golden Dragon Award for Finalist Award of Re-Evaluation
I Become a Fairy Fox (with Long Yu as illustrator), Bronze Prize, 2016 Golden Dragon Award for The Most Popular Comics
Mccdia, writer of Healing
Mccdia is a young novelist and comic writer. She was born in Xinjiang, the westernmost part of China. Now she lives in Shanghai, the easternmost part of China. From west to east, her rich life experience and childhood life in the countryside makes her an experiential writer. Mccdia's writing is featured as pure and innocent. She came across comics in 2016 and began working with artist Hu Ni. Their collaboration work A Ju, The Fox is a hot webcomic on Kuaikan Comic App with a popularity rate of 10.6 billion. This work was published in book form from October, 2017. Now it has published three volumes. From 2018 to 2019, several of Mccdia's short stories has been adapted and published in comic collection The Universe Storeand Fantasy Girls.
BAI Youchun, writer of Starry Night at Dawn
Bai Youchun is an experienced writer, specializing in adaptation. His love for comics and animation started from very young age. He's familiar with thousands of domestic and foreign comic and animation works, covering a wide range. Among them, Hayao Miyazaki’s work is his favorite. He keeps reading and writing, trying to form his own style. He's participated in many popular cartoon projects including Boonie Bears (2012-2015), Dream Summoner 2, and The Leader: Karl Marx etc. Many comics he wrote are published on major Chinese comic platforms like Tencent Comics.
Mozhelianhuan, illustrator of Choice
Mozhelianhuan once worked for Dolphin Media, subsidiary of Hubei Changjiang Publishing & Media Group. There he participated in the illustration of the large-scale historical comic 'New Dynasty Warriors', which published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. Since 2006, he has officially become an independent illustrator, accepting orders for the cover and internal illustrations of various publishing houses and famous magazines, such as Changjiang Children's Press, Qingdao Publishing House, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Science Fiction World, etc. In 2017, he returned to the field of comics, and created an original long comic "Ferocious Dead" from his real experience of childhood, adolescence and youth, serialized on the Internet platform. His painting has a unique personal realistic style. He now lives in Yunnan and aspires to become a storyteller with pictures.
LIU Huang, illustrator of Starry Night at Dawn
Liu Huang is a freelance cartoonist from Shaoyang, Hunan. He is passionate about different kinds of painting at his early age. At middle school, he began drawing comics. Liu regards comics as a way of express himself to the world. His drawings are mainly about life and history. He received two awards and a nominee of Golden Dragon Award and Wukong Cup Comic Contest for Youths Among China, Japan & the ROK. He now lives in Shanghai.
XU Ziran, illustrator of the Laughing baby
Xu Ziran (also know as Ziran Xu) was born in 1986, a native of Wuhan, Hubei province. After graduate from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009, he worked in game industry for five years before go freelancing. Among all comic artists, his favorites are Matsumoto Taiyo, Ashley Wood, Moebius, and Sergio Toppi. His works have appeared in art shows in France, Belgium and Argentina. His works include:
Oasis of Hope (PSYCHE Magazine,2015）
Perfect Crime (script by Shi Xin, included in collection Universe Store, 2017)
Su Lie (publicity comics for Tencent’s MOBA game King of Glory, 2019)
Histoires de la Coupe du Monde (as one of the illustrators, Petit à petit, 2018)
Kingtao, illustrator of Healing
Kingtao, a former designer in Tencent Ads, once worked in animation and game industry. Apart from comic creations, he draws covers & illustrations for books and magazines published by Science Fiction World magazine, Changjiang Literature & Art Press, & Zhejiang Children's Publishing House and many other major publishers in China. His works are well-recognized by those publishers.
WANG Jing, illustrator of The Ferryman & Spring of the City
Born in 1990, Wang Jing is a young talented Chinese comic artist from Guilin, Guangxi province.
Wang Jing is passionate for comics as a little boy and has kept learning drawing ever since. At first, he was keen on Japanese manga. When he first read French comics in high school, he was completely attracted by this new narrative method. Since then, he has been looking for his own narrative method in a large number of assignments and creations.
After graduating in 2013, he went to Shenzhen. He worked for an animation studio there for many years. While he also published his own comic series in a comic magazine. In 2007, he is devoted himself solely to comic creation. He's now a signed artist of FT Culture. After finishing The Adventure of a Chinese, he was invited to perform the adaption and creation of Age of Angels, a novella written by Liu Cixin, author of Three-Body Problem.
LIN Min, illustrator of Guardian
Lin Min, is the first batch of exchange Chinese comic artists invited to Japan, and the first batch of Chinese comic artists whose works were collected by Masuda Manga Museum. His work "Ghost King Zhongkui" was serialized in Japan and was rated as a recommended work by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. His work 'Painted Skin' won Most Digital Conceptual Design Prize of 2012 Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest. Another work 'Kuang Fei' won Best internet literature adaptation into comics of The 7th Asian Youth Animation, Comics and Digital Arts Contest. His works have been exhibited in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.
Ya Men, illustrator of Because of you
Ya Men, born in 1997, is a new talent with great potential. She has been keen on painting since childhood, studying different painting styles. She reads excellent animations and comics from both at home and abroad in the spare time, including " Shanghai Animation Film Studio", "Disney", "Dream Works Studio", " Shueisha", etc. These works affected her a lot. She systematically studied game painting design at 19, and then studied animation production at The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. After graduation, she worked in the game industry and also drew illustrations and comics for the company "Seewo". In the future, she looks forward to continuing to use paintbrushes to construct her imagined world.
PXTAR/Root, illustrator of Happiness Station
PXTAR/Root: PXTAR is a comic studio that brings a group of outstanding young artists together. The member of PXTA, Root's drawing style is compatible with beauty of Japanese manga and realism of American comics, forming his own unique style with strong visual impact. He was invited to participate in the creation of the official spin-off comic 'Battle of Darkness'.
