Li Yan

Li Yan, who writes under the pen name Li Yi, is a children's literature author and a member of the China Writers Association and a council member of the Shaanxi Provincial Defense Science and Technology Industry Writers Association. She works at a state-owned enterprise under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Her works include children's novels such as Paper Fragrance, Jia Hua and Fire Copper Bell, as well as picture-book series such as This Is China and Telling Chinese Stories Well to Children. She received the 2021 Bing Xin Children's Literature Award. Beyond children's literature, the library also holds other works she has contributed to or been involved with, spanning foreign literature, history, world history, medicine and classics, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A History of Shanghai (2 volumes), The Hungry Empire: How Food Shaped the Modern World and A Handbook of Medications for Newborns and Infants. Public information is limited, and her birth and death years and detailed biography are not available; this introduction is based mainly on her published works.