Terry Hu (; born 21 April 1953) is a

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actor, writer and translator.

Life

Early life

Hu was born Hu Yinyin in

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Taiw ...

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on April 21, 1953, with her

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Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

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, the only child of Qu Shifang (), and Hu Gengnian (), a member of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China. Hu was raised in

and

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 n ...

. When she was 15, her parents divorced. Hu attended the Christchurch School. she graduated from

Fu Jen Catholic University Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...

in 1971, where she majored in

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. When she left Fu Jen Catholic University, her university students said: "Fu Jen Catholic University have no spring from now on." After graduation, Hu went abroad to study at

Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan un ...

, majoring in mass communication, she also studied at a modeling school in

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Acting career

Hu returned to Taiwan in 1975. At the same year, Hu first rose to prominence for playing in ''The Life God'', a film starring Brigitte Lin. In 1977, Hu appeared in Bai Jingrui's ''Far Away From Home'', which earned her a

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. One year later, Hu acted in the historical film ''A Teacher of Great Soldiers'', a film starring

Chun Hsiung Ko Ko Chun-hsiung (; 15 January 1945 – 6 December 2015) was a Taiwanese actor, director and politician. He had been acting since the 1960s and had appeared in more than 200 films. His career accolades included three Golden Horse Awards, two As ...

. Hu studied at

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, majoring in acting. In 2003, Hu attended the 40th

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 Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is us ...

. At the age of 35, Hu withdrew from entertainment industry, she appeared in 42 films during her 15 acting years.

Writing & translating career

In 1986, Hu gave up her acting career to focus on writing and translating, and became one of the pioneers of the

New Age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

in Taiwan. She has translated the works of

Jiddu Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti (; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was a philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, an advanced spiritual position in the theosophical tradition, but later rejected thi ...

Pema Chödrön Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། ''padma chos sgron'' “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism an ...

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and

Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience. Life and career Wilbe ...

. She has emerged as “a leading figure of Taiwan’s New Age and an inventive individual in the New Age’s global dissemination,” and has described “women as being particularly receptive to New Age thought and having a vital role to play in planetary transformation.”

Personal life

On May 6, 1980, Hu married Taiwanese writer, historian and politician

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 ...

. Their love story was even featured by ''

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''. Their wedding was held in Li's living room. Hu chose her pajama as her wedding dress. But the couple divorced on August 28, 1980, after about three months of marriage (115 days in total). Since their divorce, the two often have had mutual criticism. On November 25, 1994, Hu gave birth to her only daughter, Hu Jiesheng (), as a single mother. Hu has never publicly revealed the child's biological father.洗尽铅华：胡因梦首说真实生活
Retrieved 2017-01-09

Works

Book

* ''Death and the Maiden'' (), . * ''Ancient Future'' (), . * ''Immensee'' () * ''Hu Yan Meng Yu'' ()

Translation

* ''When Life Falls Apart'' (), . * ''Grace and Grit'' (), . * ''Freedom, Love and Action'' (), . * ''The Only Revolution and The Urgency of Change'' (), . * ''Krishnamurti: A Biography'' (), . * ''Exploration into Insight'' (), . * ''Respect for Acting'' (), . * ''The Ending of Time'' (), .

Film

Television

Awards

References

External links

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New Age Music
a translation of a chapter from Terry Hu's ''Ancient Future''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hu, Terry 1953 births Living people Taiwanese film actresses Taiwanese television actresses Taiwanese female models Writers from Taichung Taiwanese translators Religion in Taiwan Taiwanese environmentalists Taiwanese women environmentalists Seton Hall University alumni Fu Jen Catholic University alumni Taiwanese Buddhists Actresses from Taichung Taiwanese people of Manchu descent 20th-century Taiwanese actresses 20th-century Taiwanese writers Manchu actresses