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Dream Of The Red Chamber Award
The Dream of the Red Chamber Award: The World's Distinguished Novel in Chinese (紅樓夢獎：世界華文長篇小說獎) is a biennial novel prize presented by Hong Kong Baptist University recognizing Chinese literature, Chinese language fiction published both within China, and also internationally. Although the prize is named after the famous Qing dynasty, Qing novel ''Dream of the Red Chamber'', works do not need to have any relationship to that novel. Winners and nominees References Official Site in English {{DEFAULTSORT:Dream of the Red Chamber Award Awards established in 2006 2006 establishments in Hong Kong Chinese-language literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts education, liberal arts institution with a Christian ethics, Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of American Baptists, who provided both operating and construction funds and personnel to the school in its early years. It became a public college in 1983. It became Hong Kong Baptist University in 1994 during the presidency of Dr. Daniel Tse Chi-wai, Legum Doctor, LLD, Gold Bauhinia Star, GBS, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Justice of the Peace, JP, who succeeded the Founding President, Dr. Lam Chi-fung, as the second president of the university in 1971. After 30 years of services to the university, Dr. Daniel Tse Chi-wai retired in 2001 and Prof. Ng Ching-fai, GBS, was appointed as the third president of the university. In 2010, Prof. Albert Chan Sun-chi assumed office as the fourth president of HKBU. In 2015, Prof. Roland Chin was appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi (born 6 March 1954) is a Chinese writer, vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006, and professor in Chinese Literature at Fudan University since 2004. Wang widely write novels, novellas, short stories and essays with diverse themes and topics. The majority of her works are set in Shanghai, where she lived and worked for the majority of her life. Wang also regularly writes about the countryside in Anhui, where she was " sent down" during the Cultural Revolution. Her works have been translated into English, German and French, and studied as zhiqing (educated youth), xungen (roots-searching), Haipai (Shanghai style), and dushi (urban, cosmopolitan) literature. Early life Wang was born in Nanjing in 1954, but moved to Shanghai with her mother when she was a year old. Under the influence of her parents, she liked literature very much in childhood. After the Cultural Revolution, her parents were sent to labor camps. She read a large number of foreign works, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ge Fei (author)
Ge Fei (, born 1964) is the pen-name for Liu Yong (), a Chinese novelist who is considered one of the preeminent experimental writers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Biography Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He graduated from East China Normal University in 1985. He received his PhD in 2000. Works His most prominent work is the novel ''Peach Blossom Paradise'' (人面桃花, ''Renmian Taohua'', 2004), which explores the concept of utopia, and is laden with classical allusions. The English translation was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2021. It is the first book of his Jiangnan Trilogy, of which the second book, ''My Dream of the Mountain and River'' (山河入梦 ''Shanhe Rumeng''), was published in 2007. The third is ''Spring Ends in Jiangnan'' (), published in 2011. The title of ''Renmian Taohua'' is taken from a classical work, and has also been used by the director Du Haibin for his documentary on a gay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yan Lianke
Yan may refer to: Chinese states * Yan (state) (11th century – 222 BC), a major state in northern China during the Zhou dynasty * Yan (Han dynasty kingdom), first appearing in 206 BC * Yan (Three Kingdoms kingdom), officially claimed independence in 237 but considered to have ruled since 190 * Former Yan (337–370) * Later Yan (384–407) * Yan (An–Shi) (756–763), a rebel state founded by the An-Shi Rebellion * Yan (Five Dynasties period) (911–913) Names * Yan (surname), romanization for several Chinese surnames * Yan, a Cantonese transcription of surname Zhen (甄) * Yan, a transliteration of the name "Ян" ( Jan) from the Russian language People * Yan Emperor, a legendary emperor of ancient China * Yan, Marquis of Tian (died c. 370 BC), 4th-century BC ruler of the state of Qi * Yan (musician) or Jan Scott Wilkinson, English singer-songwriter * Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin or Yan (1853–1909), Ukrainian-American Yiddish-language playwright * Yan Zhu, softw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Ling
Chung Ling (; born 1945) is a Taiwan-Chinese writer, critic, educator and translator. Her name also appears as Zhong Ling. ">/sup> She was born in Chongqing in Sichuan province, a native Cantonese and came to Taiwan with her family in 1950 from Japan. Zhong was educated at a girls' school in Kaohsiung, at Tunghai University and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ">/sup> She taught at State University of New York at Albany, at Hong Kong University at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, where she became Dean of Liberal Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University where she served as chair professor, Dean of Arts and Associate Vice President, and in University of Macau where she became the founding Master of Cheng Yu Tung College. ">/sup> In Baptist University she founded the International Workshop and The Dream of Red Chamber Award: World's Distinguished Novel in Chinese. In 1977, she married director Hu Jinquan; the couple divorced in 1991. ">/sup> Zhong has edited and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Ling (author)
Ling Zhang (; born in 1957) is a former senior audiologist and fiction writer in Toronto, Canada. She was born in Wenzhou, China and came to Canada in 1986 to pursue her MA in English at University of Calgary. She obtained her second MA degree in Communication disorders at the University of Cincinnati. She has published nine novels and several collections of novellas and short stories in Chinese. One of her novels,《金山》, has been translated into English, French, and German. She has won numerous important literary prizes in China. In 2009, Zhang's novella, Aftershock (2010 film), a tale about the survival of the horrific 1976 Tangshan earthquake, was made into China's first IMAX movie, directed by Feng Xiaogang. This movie became the greatest box office success at the time and has grossed more than US$100 million at the Chinese box office. According to The Wall Street Journal, ''Aftershock'' opens the Imax market to Chinese films. The abc NEWS also mentions that ''Aftershock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hon Lai-chu
Hon Lai-chu (, born 1978) is a Hong Kong writer. She has authored eight books in Chinese and won numerous awards, including the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for fiction, Taiwan’s Unitas New Writer’s Novella first prize, and the Hong Kong Book Prize. Her books have twice been named to the list of Top Ten Chinese Novels Worldwide, in 2008 and 2009. Hon's clean, absurd and abstract style has been compared to Franz Kafka, and her intensely psychological stories often reflect her characters’ inner struggles for freedom, against the futility of attempts to find meaning in everyday existence; to Hon’s characters, the “way out” lies in transformation that comes from overturning established identities. Writing career Hon's 2006 story ''The Kite Family'' (《風箏家族》), first published as a novella, won the New Writer’s Novella first prize from Taiwan’s Unitas Literary Association and the extended version was named one of 2008’s Books of the Year b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massage (novel)
''Massage'' is a 2008 Chinese novel by Bi Feiyu about blind masseurs. It won China's most prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011. The novel has been translated into English (by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin), German (by Marc Hermann), Russian (by Natalia Vlasova), Korean (by Moon Hyun-seon), and Japanese (by Yutori Iizuka). ''Massage'' was adapted into a 2013 TV series '' See Without Looking'', a 2014 film '' Blind Massage'' (which won Asian Film Award for Best Film and Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film The Golden Horse Award for Best Narrative Feature is given at the Golden Horse Awards The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards () is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Governme ...), as well as a successful stage production. 2008 Chinese novels Novels about blindness Chinese novels adapted into films Chinese novels adapted into television series Mao Dun Literature Prize Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bi Feiyu
Bi Feiyu (, born 1964) is a Chinese writer.Chitralekha Basu and Song Wenwei ''China Daily'', Jan 12, 2012 His works are known for their complex portrayal of the "female psyche." He has won some of the highest literary awards in China. He also wrote the screenplay for Zhang Yimou's 1996 film ''Shanghai Triad''. Biography Bi was born in Xinghua, Jiangsu Province in 1964. His name Feiyu means "one who flies across the universe". He lives in Nanjing. Critical reception Feiyu's novel ''The Moon Opera'' (), translated by Howard Goldblatt, was longlisted for the 2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, while ''Three Sisters'' (), also translated by Goldblatt, won the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize.Bi Feiyu. The Man Asian Literary Prize In China, his awards include twice winning the |
Diao Dou
Diao is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized as Tiao in Wade–Giles. Diao is listed 148th in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 245th most common surname in China, shared by 300,000 people. Notable people * Diao Jian ( 刁间), one of the richest merchants of the Western Han dynasty * Diao Zidu ( 刁子都; died 26 AD), Xin dynasty rebel leader * Diao Xie ( 刁協; died 322), Eastern Jin dynasty prime minister * Diao Yi (刁彝), son of Diao Xie, avenged his father's death * Diao Yong ( 刁雍; 390–484), Eastern Jin official, great-grandson of Diao Xie * Diao Guangyin or Diao Guang (刁光胤; ca. 852–935), Tang dynasty painter * George Tiao ( 刁錦寰; born 1933), statistician, member of the Academia Sinica * Diao Wenyuan (刁文元; born 1943), table tennis player and coach * David Diao (born 1943), Chinese-American artist * Diao Guoxin (刁国新; born 1958), PL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Yung-ping
Li, li, or LI may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Landscape Institute, a British professional body for landscape architects * Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia, US, that teaches "political technology." * Li Auto (Nasdaq: LI), a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles * Liberal International, a political federation for liberal parties * Linux International, an international non-profit organization * Lyndon Institute, an independent high school in the U.S. state of Vermont * The Light Infantry, a British Army infantry regiment Names * Li (surname), including: ** List of people with surname Li ** Li (surname 李), one of the most common surnames in the world ** Li (surname 黎), the 84th most common surname in China ** Li (surname 栗), the 249th most common surname in China ** Li (surname 利), the 299th most common surname in China ** Li (surname 厉), a Chinese surname ** Li (surname 郦), a Chinese surname ** Li (surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luo Yijun
Luo Yijun (; born 29 March 1967) is a Taiwanese writer. Biography Luo attended Chinese Culture University, where he studied Chinese literature under authors such as Zhang Dachun, who influenced his early style; he later earned a master's degree in theater from Taipei National University of the Arts. His works include fiction, poetry, essays, and literary criticism. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the '' China Times'' Literature Award and the 10th ''United Daily News'' Literature Prize. In 2007, he was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Themes and Style The only child of mainland Chinese immigrants who fled the Kuomintang, Luo has attributed the themes of alienation and migration in novels such as ''Tangut Inn'', which combines science fiction with characteristics of postmodern literature, or the quasi-autobiographical vignettes that comprise ''We'', to his own experience of cultural outsiderness growing up in Taiwan. His style has been desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
