Eileen Chengyin Chow () is a sinologist, Chinese translator and University Teacher. She works for the

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and for the Shih Hsin University in

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. She graduated in Literature from

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and studied her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at

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. Together with Carlos Rojas, in 2009 she translated to

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'' Brothers'', the longest novel written by the

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novelist Yu Hua. The novel was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and was awarded France's Prix Courrier International in 2008. She is director of the

Cheng Shewo Cheng Shewo (; 28 August 1898 - 1 January 1991) was a journalist, publisher, and educator of the Republic of China. He was the founder of Shih Hsin University in Taiwan. Biography Cheng was born in Nanjing in 1898, with his ancestral home in Xia ...

Institute of Chinese Journalism at the Shih Hsin University. She is the granddaughter of

, a journalist, publisher, and educator of the

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, who founded the Shih Hsin University in

, and the niece of Taiwanese sociologist

Lucie Cheng Lucie Cheng () was a sociologist known for her work in Asian American studies, as well as being the first permanent director of the Asian American Studies Center, UCLA. She was also one of the first American academics to forge links with mainla ...

Selected publications

* Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. ''Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon'', 2008. * Yu, H. Brothers: A Novel by Yu Hua. Translated by Carlos Rojas and E. Cheng-yin Chow. Pantheon, 2009. * Rojas, C., and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, eds. ''The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. * Rojas, C., and E. Chow, eds. ''Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas''. Oxford University Press, 2013 *

Lung Yingtai 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 t ...

, translated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow: ''1949: China, Trauma and Memory,'' Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020.

References

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