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] 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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Confucius Institute (CI) director, Yan Li, publishes New Novel. Lily in the Snow". Renison University College. April 4, 2012.
  2. ^ "Yan Li". Asian Heritage in Canada: Authors. Ryerson University Library.
  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. ^ "Professor Yan Li featured in October issue of China Business Focus". Renison University College. April 4, 2012.
  6. ^ McLaren, Leah (21 December 2011). "Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang". Toronto Life.
  7. ^ a b Luo, Shao-Pin (22 September 2012). "Writing Chinese Diaspora". Canadian Literature (214): 172. Gale A334379691.
  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.