Anni Baobei Explained

Anni Baobei
Birth Name:	励婕 Li Jie
Pseudonym:	Annie Baby (安妮宝贝) Qing Shan (庆山)^[1]
Birth Date:	1974 7, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Occupation:	Novelist, short story writer
Language:	Chinese
Nationality:	Chinese
Period:	1998－
Genre:	Novel
Children:	1^[2]

Li Jie, more commonly known by her pen name Anni Baobei or Annie Baby, is a Chinese novelist, born 11 July 1974 in Ningbo, Zhejiang.^[3] She is nicknamed "Flower in the Dark" by her readers due to her novels' themes of loneliness and isolation.^[4]

Li currently lives in Beijing.^[5]

Writing career

In her early twenties, Li worked at a bank in Ningbo, but her distaste for the job led her to begin her career as an online writer in 1998. In 2000, she began writing for the website Rongshuxia, which was one of China's first literary forums.^[6] In that same year, she published Goodbye, Vivian, a collection of short stories; this was her first print publication, and would sell half a million copies.^{[7] [8]}

Li has also worked as an editor of the literary journal Open and as a translator of children's books. Her work appears in Chinese magazines Harvest, Writers and Elle.

Works

• Goodbye, Vivian (告別薇安) (2000), short story
• Qiyue and Ansheng (七月与安生) (2000), short story
• Endless August (八月未央) (2001), short story
• The Flower Across the Bank (彼岸花)
• Spring Banquet, novel
• The Road of Others (去往别处的路上), short story
• Two or Three Things (二三事) (2004), novel
• Lotus (莲花) (2006), novel: The main characters, Shansheng and Qingzhao, travel on foot to a village in Tibet, where one of Shansheng's boyhood friends works as a teacher. Information about Shansheng and Qingzhao is revealed in flashbacks: they are successful in their professional lives, but feel disillusioned with life in the city. Ultimately, the two attempt to make a life for themselves outside of the confines of contemporary Chinese society.^[9]
• Padma (莲花) (2006), novel
• The Beauty of Old Books

Note that many of Li's works do not yet have standardized English translations.

Media adaptations

• Soulmate (2016 film) starring Sandra Ma and Zhou Dongyu; based on Qiyue and Ansheng
• Another Me (2019 television series) starring Shen Yue, Chen Duling, and Xiong Ziqi; based on Qiyue and Ansheng
• Beautiful Reborn Flower (2019 television series) starring Song Weilong, Lin Yun, Peter Ho, and Li Xin'ai; based on The Flower Across the Bank
• Endless Summer (upcoming film) starring Luo Jin, Zhong Chuxi, and Tan Songyun; based on August Never Ends

External links

• Profile from www.chinese-shortstories.com
• Peony Literary Agency profile
• Fiction by Li Jie at WorldCat

Notes and References

1. http://news.163.com/16/0922/10/C1IGVA1V00014AEE.html 远去的“安妮宝贝”，归来的“庆山”
2. http://culture.ifeng.com/gundong/detail_2012_12/13/20141315_0.shtml 安妮宝贝首写女儿
3. Web site: Top 15 richest Chinese writers—#5—Annie Baby. Zhang. Junmian . December 6, 2011 . China Internet Information Center. 11 April 2012.
4. Web site: Peony Literary Agency - About Us. 2012-04-22. 2012-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20120311212857/http://www.peonyliteraryagency.com/pc/authors.html. dead.
5. Web site: Annie Baby.
6. Web site: Jenny . Hewett . 3 July 2012 . Anni Baobei Interview . 16 April 2023 . Time Out Dubai.
7. Web site: Baobei . Anni . December 2022 . Translated by Linshan Jiang . Qiyue and Ansheng . 16 April 2023 . MCLC Resource Center.
8. Web site: Creative Work . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314000214/http://www.creative-work.com/literary_book26.html . 2012-03-14 . 2012-04-22 .
9. Web site: Lotus, Annie Baby . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091021032814/http://www.creative-work.com/literary_book26.html . 21 October 2009 . 16 April 2023 . Creative Work.