Chen Ruoxi (; born 15 November 1938) is a Taiwanese author. A graduate of
National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan.
The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...
, she among others helped found the literary journal
Xiandai wenxue (''Modern Literature'').
Works translated into English
Mayor Yin
Chen Ruoxi's most famous work (particularly among English-speaking audiences) is her short story collection,
''The Execution of Mayor Yin'', which was published in English translation in 1978.
In addition to ''The Execution of Mayor Yin'' collection and the translations of individual stories from that collection, there have been English translations of several of Chen Ruoxi's other story collections, as well as of individual stories.
Other Collections
The Old Man and Other Stories. Hong Kong: Chinese University of HK, 1986.
The Short Stories of Ruoxi Chen, Translated from the Original Chinese: A Writer at the Crossroads. Tr. Hsin-sheng C. Kao. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1992.
Spirit Calling: Five Stories of Taiwan. Tr. Lucy H.M. Chen. Taipei: Heritage Press, 1962.
Other individual stories
"Another Fortress Besieged." Tr. Loh I-cheng. The Chinese Pen (Winter, 1980): 62-99. Rpt. in Nancy Ing, ed., Winter Plum: Contemporary Chinese Fiction. Taipei: Chinese Materials Center, 1982, 47-77. Also in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man dn Other Stories, 81-112. .
"'I Love Chairman Mao'." Excerpts from the novel The Repatriates. Tr. Howard Goldblatt. In
George Kao
George Kao (; 29 May 1912 – 1 March 2008) was a Chinese American author, translator, and journalist. He is best known for translating English-language classics into Chinese and for his efforts to bring Chinese classics to English-speaking aud ...
, ed., Two Writers and The Cultural Revolution. HK: Chinese University Press, 1980, 159-70.
"In and Outside the Wall." In Hsin-Sheng C. Kao, ed., Nativism Overseas: Contemporary Chinese Women Writers. Albany: SUNY, 1993, 25-51.
"The Last Performance." Tr. Timothy Ross and Joseph Lau. In Joseph S.M. Lau, ed., Chinese Stories From Taiwan: 1960-1970. NY: Columbia UP, 1976, 3-12.
"A Morning for Chao-ti." Tr. Lucy Chen. In Lucy Chen, Spirit Calling: Five Stories of Taiwan. Taipei: Heritage Press, 1962, 3-10. Also in Nieh Hua-ling, ed. and trans., Eight Stories By Chinese Women. Taipei: Heritage Press, 1962, 43-52.
"My Friend Ai Fen." Tr. Richard Kent and Vivian Hsu. In Vivian Ling Hsu, ed., Born of the Same Roots. Bloomington: IUP, 1981, 276-302. Republished in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man and Other Stories, 81-112.
"On the Miseries of Writers in American Exile: Sanitized Versions for Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic." Tr. Kim Besio. In Helmut Martin, ed., Modern Chinese Writers: Self-portrayals. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992, 187-92.
"Reunion in Nanking." Excerpts from the novel The Repatriates. Tr. Howard Goldblatt. In George Kao, ed., Two Writers and The Cultural Revolution. HK: Chinese University Press, 1980, 159-70.
"Ting Yun." Tr.
Wang Chi-chen
Chi-chen Wang (; 1899–2001) was a Chinese-born American literary scholar and translator. He taught as a professor at Columbia University from 1929 until his retirement in 1965.
Life and career
Wang was born in Huantai County, Shandong provinc ...
. Renditions 10 (1978): 93-100. Also in George Kao, ed., Two Writers and the Cultural Revolution. HK: Chinese University Press, 1980, 133-40 and in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man and Other Stories, 63-80.
"The Tunnel." Tr. Wang Chi-chen. Renditions 10 (1978): 101-109. Rpt. in George Kao, ed., Two Writers and the Cultural Revolution. HK: Chinese University Press, 1980, 141-49. And in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man and Other Stories. HK: Renditions, 1986.
References
Further reading
* ''Two Writers and the Cultural Revolution: Lao Shê and Chen Jo-hsi''. Editor: George Kao.
Chinese University Press
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, 1980.
External links
Biography and partial bibliography
References
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1938 births
Living people
National Taiwan University alumni
Writers from New Taipei
20th-century Taiwanese short story writers
Taiwanese women short story writers
20th-century Taiwanese writers
20th-century Taiwanese women writers
21st-century Taiwanese writers
21st-century Taiwanese women writers