Yan Li (; born 1955) is a Beijing-born Chinese-Canadian fiction author who has written in both Chinese and English. In China, she worked as a translator, instructor and journalist. Having moved to Canada in 1987, her 1995 novel Daughters of the Red Land, felt by some to be autobiographical, was a finalist for a Books in Canada First Novel Award. She teaches at Renison University College and has been director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo. Her novel Lily in the Snow (2009) followed a Chinese immigrant family in Ontario. Novels Daughters of the Red Land (1995) Lily in the Snow (2009) References 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women novelists Chinese emigrants to Canada 20th-century Chinese novelists 20th-century Chinese women writers 21st-century Chinese novelists 21st-century Chinese women writers Chinese women novelists 1955 births Living people