About the author
Ma Yan is an author about whom limited public information is available; no confirmed English name, nationality, or dates of birth and death are recorded. Three of her works are held in the collection: Political Arithmetic, Moonlight over the Lotus Pond: Illustrated Edition, and Exploring the Encyclopedia. They span finance and economics, essays and miscellaneous writings, and popular science, suggesting a fairly broad range of interests. Political Arithmetic falls under finance and economics and deals with quantitative analysis of economic and political matters; Moonlight over the Lotus Pond: Illustrated Edition belongs to essays and miscellaneous writings and presents a famous literary piece in a combined text-and-image format; Exploring the Encyclopedia is oriented toward popular science, with the character of knowledge exploration and encyclopedic introduction. Because reliable material on the author's life and creative background is lacking, a full assessment of her style and influence is difficult, and only the categories and subjects of the existing works can offer a general sense of writing that balances informative content with readability across several fields.
Written (3)
Rating 4.0★ Moonlight over the Lotus Pond: Illustrated Edition Zhu Ziqing / 马妍 Jieli Publishing House · 2025 Moonlight over the Lotus Pond is a celebrated essay Zhu Ziqing wrote while teaching at Tsinghua University. Moonlight over the Lotus Pond (Illustrated… Rating 2.4★ Encyclopedia of Exploration 马妍 Sino-Culture Press · 2024 This is a popular science book that combines knowledge, entertainment and scientific rigor. Drawing on extensive literature and archaeological finding… Rating 4.2★ Political Arithmetic 威廉·配第 / 马妍 China Social Sciences Press · 2023 This is a classic work on the condition and value of land, population, and buildings. It describes agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, fisheries, ar…Publishers
China Social Sciences PressSino-Culture PressJieli Publishing House