Yi Bei

Yi Bei hopes to bring a female point of view to his stories about relationships and urban life: the pressure for single women to find partners, for young wives to balance work and family, and for female migrants to find success in a materialistic and competitive society. Born in 1983 in Huainan, Anhui province, Yi got his master’s degree in literature from Beijing Normal University, and has published 13 works, including novels, essay collections, and biographies of well-known female writers from the Republic of China era, such as Eileen Chang.