Bi Shumin is a Chinese novelist, self-help writer and psychiatrist.

Her first published work was a novella, "Kunlun Shang" ("昆仑殇; Death in Kunlun"), based on her experience as a People's Liberation Army medic.
Her 2003 novel Save the Breast (拯救乳房) "relates an experimentation of talk therapy with a group of patients to deal with the biopolitics of breast cancer as both social stigma and physio-psychic trauma against the tide of medical marketing in today's China."
Her 2012 novel Coronavirus (花冠病毒) drew attention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several examples of both fiction and essays have been translated into English, and her work has attracted critical attention especially from those interested in gender in contemporary Chinese literature and the depiction of medicine and illness. Prizes she has won include the Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award. Edit Biography