Yan Li (author)

For other people with similar names, see Li Yan.

Yan Li (Chinese: 李彥; born 1955) is a Beijing-born Chinese-Canadian fiction author who has written in both Chinese and English. In China, she worked as a translator, instructor and journalist.[1] Having moved to Canada in 1987, her 1995 novel Daughters of the Red Land, felt by some to be autobiographical, was a finalist for a Books in Canada First Novel Award.[2][3][4] Her novel Lily in the Snow (2009) followed a Chinese immigrant family in Ontario.[5]

She teaches at Renison University College and has been director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo.[1][6][7]

Novels

  • Daughters of the Red Land (1995)[8][9]
  • Lily in the Snow (2009)[5][10]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Confucius Institute (CI) director, Yan Li, publishes New Novel. Lily in the Snow". Renison University College. April 4, 2012. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  2. ^ "Yan Li". Asian Heritage in Canada: Authors. Ryerson University Library. Archived from the original on 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  3. ^ Lu, Yan (November 2015). Minor Transethnicity: Chinese, First Nations, and Blacks in Multilingual Chinese Canadian Fiction (Thesis). hdl:1807/82425.
  4. ^ Condé, Mary (2008). "Canadian Border Crossings: Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai". In Lee, A. Robert (ed.). China Fictions / English Language. pp. 141–159. doi:10.1163/9789401205481_009. ISBN 978-90-420-2351-2.
  5. ^ a b Luo, Shao-Pin (22 September 2012). "Writing Chinese Diaspora". Canadian Literature (214): 172. Gale A334379691.
  6. ^ "Professor Yan Li featured in October issue of China Business Focus". Renison University College. April 4, 2012. Archived from the original on February 5, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
  7. ^ McLaren, Leah (21 December 2011). "Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang". Toronto Life.
  8. ^ Moon-Su, Pil (30 September 2019). "Criticism, Deconstruction and Reconstruction in Double Reflection : Interpreting Chinese Writer Li Yan's 'Daughters of the Red Land'". Chinese Studies. 68: 299–314. doi:10.14378/KACS.2019.68.68.18. S2CID 211944103.
  9. ^ Li, Yan (February 1996). "Daughters of the red land". Books in Canada. 25 (1). Toronto: 35. ProQuest 215189213.
  10. ^ Tisseyre, Michelle (November 2010). "Healing a Devastated Life". Literary Review of Canada.
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