Zou Jingzhi (b. 1952) is an acclaimed Chinese playwright, poet and prose writer. Extremely influential as a poet in the 1980s, he has continued to shape public opinion in China more recently through his stage productions and screenplays, including The Grandmasters (dir. Wong Kar Wai) and Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (dir. Zhang Yimou). He is a founding member of the theater collective Longmashe, which regularly produces his plays. Mr. Zou is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a resident writer of the Beijing Writers Association.