"The Cat God in the Forbidden City is a fairy tale told through a cat's perspective—a beautiful and enduring story about friendship and companionship, memory and history, life and eternity."

—Official synopsis, China National Theatre for Children & The Palace Museum

★ Written by Feng Li, President of the China National Theatre for Children and a national first-class playwright! The children's play The Cat God in the Forbidden City received widespread acclaim at its premiere and was subsequently adapted into this picture book.
★ The author has won the "Cao Yu Playwright Award" of the Chinese Drama Award, the "Golden Lion Award" of Chinese Spoken Drama, and the "Outstanding Playwright Award" from the Ministry of Culture. Her works have been selected for the National Stage Art Excellence Project multiple times.
★ From the stage to the page, from dynamic performance to static illustration—the story of this Forbidden City cat continues in a new form. The picture book preserves the core narrative and emotional essence of the play, retelling it through the unique visual language of picture books.
★ Set in the Forbidden City and seen through a cat's eyes, the story unfolds beneath the ancient palace eaves and alongside its red walls—a tale of companionship, guardianship, and belonging.

Against the backdrop of the Forbidden City—with its red walls and yellow glazed tiles, the changing of seasons, the ridge beasts atop the eaves, and the cats that roam the palace grounds—this book tells the fantastical journey of a cat named "Baobei."

This cat travels through time within the Forbidden City, encountering people and cats from different eras. Beneath the ancient palace eaves and alongside the red walls, it unfolds a story about companionship, guardianship, and belonging. Through the cat's perspective, warmth and vitality are breathed into the ancient palace, making history no longer a distant display but something that can be touched and felt.

Feng Li
President and Deputy Party Secretary of the China National Theatre for Children, national first-class playwright. She is a member of the China Writers Association and the Chinese Theatre Association.
Representative works include the children's plays The Cat God in the Forbidden City, Where Is Little Butterfly's Mother?, and The Adventures of the Firefly Siblings; the spoken drama Chinese Soldiers; the song-and-dance drama In That Distant Place; and the TV series Beijing Summer.
She has received the "Cao Yu Playwright Award" of the Chinese Drama Award, the "Golden Lion Award" of Chinese Spoken Drama, and the "Outstanding Playwright Award" from the Ministry of Culture. Her works have been selected for the National Stage Art Excellence Project multiple times.