About the author
Zhao Yan is a versatile Chinese writer. Public information about him is limited, but the ten works held in the library show interests spanning essays, fiction, and travel writing. Taking Huizhou as a central image, he wrote works such as Thoughts on Huizhou: Six Lectures on Huizhou Merchants and A Thousand-Year Dream of Huizhou: Old Huizhou, blending local history, merchant culture, and personal observation. Traveling the Xin'an River: The Taste of Huizhou and Wind Sweeping the Huai and Yangtze Rivers place footsteps alongside taste and rivers, presenting the customs of the Jianghuai region. The essay collection Peach Pink, Pear White, Rapeseed Yellow has a fresh, lucid style close to daily life, while The Sorrow at the Edge of Human Nature, Impermanence, and Walking with a Cobra turn to social fiction, attending to the subtleties of human nature and real-life predicaments. Overall, his writing combines regional depth with a reflective temperament and will appeal to readers interested in Huizhou culture, travel essays, and contemporary social narrative.
Written (11)
Rating 3.8★ Walking with the Cobra 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This collection of novellas and short stories by the renowned writer Zhao Yan gathers representative works including "In the Company of the Cobra," "T… Rating 3.5★ The Beauty of Xuan Paper 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 This work traces the creation of xuan paper in elegant, expansive prose, exploring the historical mysteries attached to ancient xuan paper, surveying … Rating 4.2★ Thoughts on Huizhou: Six Lectures on Huizhou Merchants 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This book is a travelogue of Huizhou. While taking in the region's landscapes, it adopts the stance of a cultural traveler, scrutinizing and interroga… Rating 4.1★ A Thousand-Year Dream of Huizhou: Old Huizhou 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This book is a travelogue of Huizhou, a soulful journey undertaken by the author after immersing himself fully in Huizhou's history and culture. In a … Rating 4.1★ Walking the Xin'an River: The Flavor of Huizhou 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This book is a travelogue of Huizhou, structured around the author's journey along the banks of the Xin'an River. It records the real Huizhou, and not… Rating 4.0★ Red Peach, White Pear, Yellow Rapeseed Flowers 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 An urban essay collection, written in an intellectual's tone about city life—nothing more than eating, drinking, playing, enjoying, reading, writing, … Rating 3.9★ Sorrow at the Edge of Human Nature 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A collection of film essays, including "The Sorrow of Paris" and "Two Sides of a Card," in which the author, in calm and plain prose, reflects on what… Rating 3.9★ Wind Sweeping Across the Huai River and the Yangtze River 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A collection of cultural essays whose brush reaches the history and culture of the Huai River and the Yangtze River—weighty and grand, open and sweepi… Rating 3.8★ Impermanence 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This is a novel. The story is divided into four parts and blurs time and narrative setting, telling a story of Huangshan centered on four women named … Rating 3.6★ The Other Shore 赵焰 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Combining chronological and reverse chronology, the book follows the thread of the protagonist's memories to tell a story of standing on this shore an… Rating 3.8★ Zeng Guofan of the Late Qing 赵焰 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2009 Zeng Guofan of the Late Qing is one volume of writer Zhao Yan's "Late Qing Trilogy," which also includes Li Hongzhang of the Late Qing and Yuan Shikai…Publishers
Anhui Literature and Art Publishing HouseGuangxi Normal University Press