‎ Nianyi (念一)

Born in 1997 in a small southern border town, freelance writer Nianyi resigned from an internet company and is currently on a three-year journey to document the Chinese borderlands. He claims to have extensive experience in what David Graeber calls “bullshit jobs,” having worked as an intern at a publishing house, a journalist, a freelance new media worker, and a football intelligence analyst. Yet, his greatest passion remains writing, through which he hopes to experience more parallel lives in this brief existence. His short stories and reviews have been published in literary journals such as Xihu, Wild Grass, and Mountain Flowers.