Shi Shuqing (; born 1945) is a

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 nort ...

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writer and educator. She was born in

Lukang, Changhua Lukang, formerly romanized as Lugang and also known by other names, is an urban township in northwestern Changhua County, Taiwan. The township is on the west coast of Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait. Lukang was an important sea port in the 18th ...

and is the sister of writer Li Ang. Shi was educated at

Tamkang University Tamkang University (TKU; ) is a private university in Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It was founded in 1950 as a junior college of English literature. Today it is a comprehensive university with 11 colleges that serves nearly 25,000 ...

and City University of New York. She taught at

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

National Chengchi University National Chengchi University () is a public research university in Taipei. The university is also considered as the earliest public service training facility of the Republic of China. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subs ...

. In 1978, Shi moved to

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

where she became director of Asian programs at the

Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC; ) is a non-profit arts institution and art museum established in 1977. It promotes contemporary performing arts, visual arts, film and video arts. It also provides arts education. Its rival is the government-managed ...

, later working as a consultant there. She returned to Taiwan in 1997.

Selected works

* ''The Barren Years and Other Short Stories and Plays'', English translation (1975) * ''Yi ye you : Xianggang de gu shi'' (One night journeys - Hong Kong stories, short stories (1985)) * ''Xianggang sanbuqu'' (Hong Kong trilogy) (1993, 1995, 1997) * ''Weiduoliya julebu'' (The Victoria Club), novella (1993) * ''Weixun caizhuang'' (Blush of intoxication), novel (1999) * ''City of the Queen'', novel translated by

Howard Goldblatt Howard Goldblatt (, born 1939) is a literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese (mainland China & Taiwan) fiction, including '' The Taste of Apples'' by Huang Chunming and '' The Execution of Mayor Yin'' by Chen Ruoxi. Goldblatt ...

(2008)

References

1945 births Living people Taiwanese women novelists Tamkang University alumni City University of New York alumni Academic staff of the National Chengchi University {{Taiwan-writer-stub