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List Of Taiwanese Authors
This is a list of authors from Taiwan. See also *List of Taiwanese people * Literature of Taiwan * National Museum of Taiwanese Literature *Culture of Taiwan The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Confucian Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese cultures. Despite the overwhelming traditional Chinese influence, Japanese culture has influenced Taiwanese culture as well. The common socio-political experience ... External links Contemporary Authors Full-Text & Image System 當代文學史料影像全文系統 (in Chinese characters)National Museum of Taiwanese LiteratureOn-line Alliance of Taiwan's Modern Poetry 臺灣現代詩網路聯盟 (in Chinese characters)* ttp://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/projects/fswlc/tlsd/dbindex.html UCSB Taiwanese Literature Database {{Lists of writers by nationality Taiwanese Writers * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Chunming
Huang Chun-ming (; born 13 February 1935) is a Taiwanese literary figure and teacher. Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and many of his short stories have been turned into films, including ''The Sandwich Man'' (1983). Career Born in Ratō Town, Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan), Huang began his higher education career at a college in Taipei but, after a series of transfers, ended up graduating from National Pingtung University of Education in southern Taiwan. He is a writer of broad interests and remarkable versatility, but he is first of all a short story writer. During the 1960s as a major contributor to the influential ''Literature Quarterly'', Huang was hailed as a representative of the Taiwan Nativist Literature movement that focused on the lives of rural Taiwanese people. In more recent works he has turned his attention to urban culture and life in Taiwan's growing cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nie Hualing
Hualing Nieh Engle (born 11 January 1925), née Nieh Hua-ling (), is a Chinese novelist, fiction writer, and poet. She is a professor emerita at the University of Iowa. Early life and education Nieh Hua-ling was born on 11 January 1925 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. In 1936, Nieh's father, an official of the Kuomintang administration, was executed by the Communist Red Army during the Chinese Civil War. In 1948, she graduated with a degree in English from the Western Languages Department of National Central University. Following the Chinese Communist Revolution, she and her family relocated to Taiwan. Career In Taiwan, Nieh became the literary editor and a member of the editorial board of ''Free China Journal'', a liberal intellectual magazine. She served in these positions until 1960, when the magazine was closed down by the Chiang Kai-shek administration. She also began to teach creative writing courses at National Taiwan University and Tunghai University, becoming the first facult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Sen
Ma Sen (馬森, b. 3 October 1932, in Shandong province) is a Taiwanese writer. Ma Sen is a literary critic, a writer of fiction, and a playwright. He studied film and drama in France starting in 1961, later studying Sociology at the University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre .... He is now a professor at Foguang University in the Graduate Institute of Literary Studies. Sefor Ma Sen's thoughts on the Chinese literary scene circa 1991. Sefor translations. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ma, Sen Taiwanese male novelists Living people 1932 births People from Dezhou University of British Columbia alumni Chinese male novelists Taiwanese people from Shandong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lung Ying-tai
Lung Ying-tai (; born 13 February 1952 in Kaohsiung) is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili' (). Lung's poignant and critical essays contributed to the democratization of Taiwan and as the only Taiwanese writer with a column in major mainland Chinese newspapers, she is a writer in Mainland China. Described as a "public intellectual of the Chinese-speaking world", she spent 20 years based outside Taiwan in the US and Germany where became widely known for her criticism of the Kuomintang's martial law regime. She has since become a critic of Mainland China's increasing restrictions on press freedom and civil liberties. She has written more than 30 books. Lung Ying-tai has held two positions within Taiwan's government as Taipei's first Cultural Bureau Chief (1999–2003) and as Taiwan's first Culture Minister (2012–2014). Early life Lung's father, Lung Huai-sheng (), a Kuomintang military police officer, fled Hunan and mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luo Fu (poet)
Mo Yun-tuan (; 11 May 1928 – 19 March 2018), known by the pen name Luo Fu (), was a Taiwanese writer and poet. Early life He was born Mo Yun-tuan in 1928 and raised in Hengyang. Mo's first work was published in 1943. He joined the Republic of China Navy, and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Mo received a bachelor's degree in English from Tamkang University in 1973, the same year he retired from the navy. He married Chen Chiung-fang of Kinmen. Career In Taiwan, Mo published several collections of poetry, anthologies, and essays, as well as a number of translations. His own works were translated into several languages. Mo and his contemporary Yu Kwang-chung were described as the Gemini in Chinese astronomy, Gemini of Chinese poetry, in reference to Gemini (constellation), the constellation depicting the mythological twins Castor and Pollux. Luo Fu founded the alongside and in 1954. He later left Taiwan for Canada in 1995. Wang Dan (dissident), Wang Dan published a collection of poem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Wenyue
Lin Wenyue (; born 5 September 1933) is a Chinese scholar, writer and translator from Taiwan. Biography Lin was born in Shanghai in 1933, with her ancestral home in Changhua County. Lin primarily studied at a Japanese school. Her grandfather, Lian Heng, was a historian, who was Vice President Lien Chan's grandfather. In 1946, Lin went to Taiwan with her family. In 1952, Lin was accepted to National Taiwan University. After graduation, she worked in Taiwan University as a teacher. Lin married Guo Yulun () in 1957 in Taiwan. She started to publish books in 1960. In 1969, Lin went to study Japanese Literature at Kyoto University in Japan. In 1989, Lin went to the United States and was a professor in Washington University in St. Louis. Lin retired in 1993 and she settled in America. From 1993 to 1999, Lin was a professor at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and Charles University. Works Prose works * ''Yaoyuan'' () * ''Chat'' () * ''Schoolroom In the aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Hwai-min
Lin Hwai-min (; born 19 February 1947) is a Taiwanese dancer, writer, choreographer, and founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. Biography Family Lin was born in Xingang, Chiayi. He came from an intellectual family. His great-grandfather was a poet and a businessman who founded a school during the Japanese colonial period. His grandfather was a doctor and his father, Lin Chin-sheng, obtained a law degree from the Tokyo Imperial University. After Chiang Kai-shek established rule in Taiwan in 1949, Lin's father held several important political positions, including the office of Chiayi County Magistrate from 1951 to 1954. His mother Lin Cheng Pen-pen graduated from the Tokyo Economics College. He is the oldest of five children. Childhood and education Lin's family enjoyed the arts. His father loved visual arts while his mother enjoyed classical music. Lin was exposed to different art forms and culture very early on in his childhood. He would go on to say that "My story has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Haiyin
Lin Haiyin (; 18 March 1918 – 1 December 2001) was a Taiwanese writer. She is best known for her 1960 book '' My Memories of Old Beijing'' (), a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing. Biography Lin was born in Osaka, Japan, where her father (of Toufen, Miaoli County origin) worked as a merchant. Lin's parents moved back to Taiwan briefly, then settling in Beijing when she was 5. She spent her next 25 years there. In Beijing, Lin graduated from the News and Broadcast Institute and became a journalist for ''Shijie Ribao'' ("World News Daily"). In 1948, Lin moved with her husband and family to Taiwan, where she became the editor of several important literary periodicals and newspapers, including the literary section of the United Daily News and The Literary Monthly, before eventually establishing her own publishing house. She would reside in Taiwan for the rest of her life. Altogether, she published some 18 books, including novels, short story collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Bi-Chhin
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 理 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Ao
Li Ao (, also spelled Lee Ao; 25 April 1935 – 18 March 2018) was a Chinese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician based in Taiwan. Li has been called one of the most important modern East Asian essayists today; his critics have called him as an intellectual narcissist. He was a vocal critic of both the main political parties in Taiwan today, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party. Li rejected being labeled "Pan-Blue" because of his opposition to the Kuomintang. He was given much media exposure in Taiwan due to his popularity as a writer. Background Li was born in Harbin, Manchukuo to Li Dingyi ( 李鼎彝), a professor of Chinese, and Zhang Kuichen (). His family had ancestry in Wei County (modern-day Weifang), Shandong Province, and Fuyu County, Jilin Province. When Li was two years old, the family moved to Beijing, where Li's father worked in the government's opium suppression bureau. There, Li's father was accused of being a trait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Ang (writer)
Shih Shu-tuan (; born 5 April 1952, in Lukang, Taiwan), pen name Li Ang (), is a Taiwanese feminist writer. After graduating from Chinese Culture University with a degree in philosophy, she studied drama at the University of Oregon, after which she returned to teach at her ''alma mater''. Her major work is ''The Butcher's Wife'' (殺夫: 1983, tr. 1986), though she has written many other novels. Feminist themes and sexuality are present in much of her work. Many of her stories are set in Lukang.Haddon, Rosemary''From Pulp to Politics: Aspects of Topicality in Fiction by Li La Ang''Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 1, pp.36-72Li Ang Guest Writers, 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English, |
