Bi Feiyu was born in 1964 in Jiangsu prov-ince, China. Previously an editor for the literary magazine Yu Hua and a journalist at Nanjing Daily, he is a two-time winner of the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Massage won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011 and was successfully adapted for film in 2014, winning several awards at the Golden Horse Awards and the Asian Film Awards.