阎海军

Yan Haijun is a writer with a clear focus whose published work centers on rural life and the relationship between countryside and city; publicly available information about him is limited. He has published six titles, including *Yabian: My Land and My People*, *Yabian Farming: A Village Through the Twenty-Four Solar Terms*, *The Yabian Report: A Record of the Fracturing of Rural China*, *Inside the Official Wall: One Person's Countryside and City*, *Crossing Longban: From East-West Interaction to a Unified China*, and a guided literature reading set. These works span documentary writing, social and cultural commentary, social fiction, and social-science and history reading. Often taking a specific village or the farming cycle of the solar terms as a starting point, they observe changes in rural society and the individual's position between village and city. His writing emphasizes documentation and observation, combining social concern with a historical perspective, and will appeal to readers interested in the realities of rural China.