Yan Li Explained

Yan Li (; 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]} She teaches at Renison University College and has been director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo.^{[1] [5] [6]} Her novel Lily in the Snow (2009) followed a Chinese immigrant family in Ontario.^[7]

Novels

• Daughters of the Red Land (1995)^{[8] [9]}
• Lily in the Snow (2009)^{[7] [10]}

Notes and References

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