About the author

Li Yan, a native of Shandong, graduated from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has been engaged in book writing and publishing for more than ten years, mainly in popular science, personal finance, and foreign-language translation. Her works span a wide range of subjects. For younger readers she has produced history titles such as the youth edition of Comics on the Twenty-Four Histories and the "Chinese History Painted for Children" series, which present major events and outstanding figures through words and pictures. She has also written popular science books including Physics Is So Much Fun and Chemistry Is So Much Fun, as well as practical guides such as A Guide to Disaster Prevention, Risk Avoidance, and Self-Rescue for Everyone. In addition, she has contributed to the translation of foreign literature and to medical writing on hypertension prevention and treatment, and has published works on classical poetry and trading rules. Her writing emphasizes combining knowledge with readability, aiming to convey information to readers of different ages in an accessible way. Due to limited public information, details of her life and her English name are not available.

Written (15)

Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension and Related Diseases cover
Rating 3.9
Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension and Related Diseases 赵连友 / 李妍 · 2025 Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension and Related Diseases begins with the current status of hypertension prevention and treatment and its epidemio…
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Rating 3.5
A Disaster Prevention, Risk Avoidance, and Self-Rescue Guide for Everyone 李妍 / 周馨媛 Seismological Press · 2025 This book lists the common knowledge and skills for self-rescue and mutual aid when natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, lightning, rainst…
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Rating 3.4
Pharmaceutical Care in Diabetes Pharmacotherapy 李妍 / 苏乐群 People's Medical Publishing House · 2025 Each volume in this series focuses on the problems clinical pharmacists frequently encounter when participating in clinical pharmacotherapy, building …
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Rating 3.9
Comic Twenty-Four Histories, Youth Edition (4 Volumes) 李妍 / Gao Wenzhe 民主与建设出版社 · 2024 Comic Twenty-Four Histories selects highlights from the Twenty-Four Histories—the collected dynastic records of China—and presents them in a form youn…
Chinese History Painted for Children: Those Major Events cover
Rating 3.8
Chinese History Painted for Children: Those Major Events 李妍 / Gao Wenzhe 民主与建设出版社 · 2024 Tracing 37 milestone events in Chinese history, this book shows the far-reaching impact each one had on the course of history. From the first great ba…
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Rating 3.8
Chinese History Painted for Children: Those Outstanding Figures 李妍 / Gao Wenzhe 民主与建设出版社 · 2024 This book profiles 37 outstanding figures of integrity and achievement from Chinese history. Organized around these individuals and brought to life th…
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Rating 3.5
Physics Is So Interesting 李妍 / Yang Yi Xiangtan University Press · 2024 Human life is inseparable from nature, and behind all the wondrous phenomena of the natural world lie discoverable laws. Sound, for instance, has freq…
Chemistry Is So Interesting cover
Rating 3.5
Chemistry Is So Interesting 李妍 / 邓钰夕 Xiangtan University Press · 2024 Chemistry is hidden in the things we see everywhere in daily life—the composition of air, the burning of a candle, the dissolving of salt grains, the …
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Rating 3.2
Models of the Times 李妍 China Children's Press & Publication Group · 2021 The Complete Book of Chinese Figures is a large series of biographical stories written especially for children, telling the stories of hundreds of out…
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Rating 4.5
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham / 李妍 Yanbian Education Press · 2019 Charles, a banker, is a middle-aged man with a successful career. Yet in pursuit of a hidden dream of painting, he suddenly abandons his wife and chil…
The Complete Collection of Feihualing Poetry cover
Rating 3.2
The Complete Collection of Feihualing Poetry 李妍 Yanbian Education Press · 2019 What deserves repeated reading in this world is Tang and Song poetry, for it articulates emotions that have resonated with readers for a thousand year…
A Concise and Beautiful Brief History of Philosophy cover
Rating 3.5
A Concise and Beautiful Brief History of Philosophy 李妍 Jiuzhou Press · 2017 A simple, highly readable introduction to philosophy that turns one's own philosophical exploration into relaxed reading pastime. In A Brief and Beaut…
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Network Interconnection Architecture and Collaborative Traffic Transmission Management in Data Centers Guo Deke / Chen Tao / Luo Lailong / 李妍 Tsinghua University Press · 2016 With the rise of cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things, data centers at the scale of hundreds of thousands or even millions of servers…
Read a Little Every Day, Improve a Little Every Day Series: Nothing You Cannot Find, Only What You Cannot Imagine (Encyclopedia of Culture, Art, History, War, Philosophy, Folklore, and National Studies) (12-Volume Set) cover
Read a Little Every Day, Improve a Little Every Day Series: Nothing You Cannot Find, Only What You Cannot Imagine (Encyclopedia of Culture, Art, History, War, Philosophy, Folklore, and National Studies) (12-Volume Set) Li Juan / Zhang Zeyun / Wang Ying / Wang Shiyao / Qiao Gongxuanzhong / Qi Xuancong / 李妍 / Xiang Qin / 周瑾 / 任浩之 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 This is a popular encyclopedia-style series built around the idea of "read a little every day," a 12-volume boxed set covering culture, art, history, …
Read a Little Every Day, Improve a Little Every Day Series: Nothing You Can't Find, Only What You Can't Imagine (Culture, Art, History, War, Philosophy, Folk Customs, and Chinese Studies Encyclopedia · 12-Volume Set) cover
Read a Little Every Day, Improve a Little Every Day Series: Nothing You Can't Find, Only What You Can't Imagine (Culture, Art, History, War, Philosophy, Folk Customs, and Chinese Studies Encyclopedia · 12-Volume Set) Li Juan / Zhang Zeyun / Wang Ying / Wang Shiyao / Qi Xuancong / 李妍 / 周瑾 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 This is a popular general-knowledge series built around the reading idea "read a little every day, improve a little every day." The set has 12 volumes…

Publishers

China Children's Press & Publication GroupJiuzhou PressPeople's Medical Publishing HouseSeismological PressYanbian Education Press民主与建设出版社Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing HouseTsinghua University PressXiangtan University Press