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Taiwanese Literature
Taiwanese literature refers to the literature written by Taiwanese people, Taiwanese in any language ever used in Taiwan, including Japanese language, Japanese, Taiwanese Hans, Taiwanese Han (Taiwanese Hokkien, Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Hakka and Taiwanese Mandarin, Mandarin) and Taiwanese Austronesian languages, Austronesian languages. Novels, short stories, and poetry Taiwan has a very active literary scene, with a large number of writers of novels and (especially) short stories enjoying a wide readership, many of them for many decades running. A short selection of prominent writers and poets includes: * Wang K'ai-yün (1889–1969) * Wu Zhuoliu (1900–1976) * Bo Yang (1920–2008) * Yao Yi-Wei (1922–1997) * Chen Min-hwa (1934–) * Huang Chun-ming (1935–) * Pai Hsien-yung (1937–) * Chen Ruoxi (1938–) * Wang Wen-hsing (1939–2023) * Yang Mu (1940–2020) * Sanmao (writer), San Mao (1943–1991) * Lung Ying-tai (1952–) * Qiu Fengjia (1864–1912) * Loa Ho (1894–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Mu
Yang Mu ( zh, t=楊牧, p=Yáng Mù, September 6, 1940 – March 13, 2020) was a pen name of Wang Ching-hsien (), a Taiwanese poet, essayist, critic, translator, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, and founding dean at NDHU College of Humanities and Social Sciences and HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is considered one of the most accomplished poets writing in Chinese in the 20th and 21st century, known for his lyricism and linguistic ingenuity, modernising the Chinese diction and syntax while reviving a sublime style out of the idiom and imagery of Chinese and Western poetic traditions. Yang Mu was praised by Swedish Academy member Göran Malmqvist, who translated his work into Swedish, as the closest Taiwanese poet to the Nobel Prize. He was the first Taiwanese winner of Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (2013) and Cikada Prize (2016). Biography Yang was born as Wang Ching-hsien on 6 September 1940 in Hualie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luo Yijun
Luo Yijun (; born 29 March 1967) is a Taiwanese writer. Biography Luo attended Chinese Culture University, where he studied Chinese literature under authors such as Zhang Dachun, who influenced his early style; he later earned a master's degree in theater from Taipei National University of the Arts. His works include fiction, poetry, essays, and literary criticism. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the '' China Times'' Literature Award and the 10th '' United Daily News'' Literature Prize. In 2007, he was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a graduate-level creative writing program. At 89 years, it is the oldest writing program offering a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in the United States. Its acceptance rate is between 2 .... Themes and Style The only child of mainland Chinese immigrants who fled the Kuomintang, Luo has attributed the themes of alienation and migration in novels s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Yang-min
Lin Yang-min (; born 1955) is a Taiwanese author and poet. Lin's body of work totals over twenty published volumes of novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. His ''Rouge Tears'', a poem of 110,000 words set in 9,000 lines, is the first epic poem to be written in Taiwanese. A number of his poems, including "Never Disregard Taiwan", have been set to music by Taiwanese composer Tyzen Hsiao. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the United Daily News Prize for Literature and the Rong Hou Award for Taiwanese Poetry. Lin, a native of Taibao in Chiayi County, studied at Chiayi Normal College and Fu Jen Catholic University. In 1983 he began writing works in Taiwanese. His interest in the creation and promotion of a distinctively Taiwanese literature accompanied a growing interest in democratic reform and Taiwanese national identity. His treatment of taboo subjects such as the White Terror under Chiang Kai-shek led to his works being officially banned by the Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu He (writer)
Chen Guocheng ( Chinese: 陳國城; born October 13, 1951), better known by his pen name Wu He (Chinese: 舞鶴; lit. dancing crane) is a Taiwanese writer from Chiayi. Life and career In the mid to late 1970s, Chen Guocheng published his first three short stories, using the pen name Chen Jinghua. "Peony Autumn" appeared in 1974, winning him the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Flame Tree Literary Award, after which he graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature at NCKU in 1975. "A Thin Incense Stick" was published in 1978 and "Past Events" in 1979. In 1981, after completing his compulsory military service, he moved to the Tamsui District Tamsui District () is a seaside District (Taiwan), district in New Taipei City, Taiwan adjacent to the Tamsui River and overlooking the Taiwan Strait. The name of the district means "fresh water" in Chinese. Although modest in size (population ... for ten years, which he has described as "ten years in isolation where I cut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Murong
Xi Murong or Hsi Muren (; born 1943) is a writer and painter. She is most famous for her poetry, especially the collections ''Seven Miles of Fragrance'' (; ''Qīlǐ Xiāng'') and ''Unregrettable Youth'' (; ''Wúyuàn de Qīngchūn''). Personal life On 15 October 1943, Xi was born in Chungking (now Chongqing). She moved to Hong Kong with her family in 1949, and then to Taiwan in 1953. In 1959, Xi entered the National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in fine art. In 1963, she graduated from National Taiwan Normal University, and started teaching at Taipei Renai Middle School. In 1964, Xi entered the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Belgium, where she studied oil painting. In February 1966, she held her first art exhibition in Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wai-lim Yip
Wai-lim Yip (; Jyutping: Jip6 Wai4-lim4, pinyin: ''Yè Wéilián''; born June 20, 1937), is a Taiwanese poet, translator, critic, editor, and professor of Chinese and comparative literature at UC San Diego. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University. He is also a visiting teacher at China's Peking University and Tsinghua University. Life Yip was born in Guangdong province. At the age of 12, he moved to Hong Kong, where he started writing poetry and was active on the poetry scene. He graduated from National Taiwan University (BA, 1959) and went on to National Taiwan Normal University (MA, 1961), where he did a thesis on T.S. Eliot and translated " The Waste Land." In 1963 he went to the United States to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, whose director, Paul Engle, went to Taipei to negotiate permission for Yip's wife Tzu-mei and their daughter to leave Taiwan; he received an MFA in 1964. He then did graduate work at Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Marr
William W. Marr (; born September 3, 1936) is a poet. Publications * In the Windy City, Chinese/English, Li Poetry Society, Taipei, Taiwan, 1975 * Selected Poems of William Marr, Taiwan Commercial Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 1983 * The White Horse, Times Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984 * Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Joint Publishing, Hong Kong, 1984 * The Resounding Echos of Hoof Beats, Li Poetry Society, Taipei, Taiwan, 1986 * Road, Elite Publishing Co., Taipei, Taiwan, 1986 * Anthology of Short Poems by Fei Ma, Strait Art Publishing House, Fuzhou, China, 1990 * CHANSONS, translation of selected poems by Pai Chiu, Chinese/English, Giant Publishing Co., Taipei, 1972; Rock Publisher, Taipei, 1991 * Fly! Spirit, Morning Star Publishing Co., Taichung, Taiwan, 1992 * Anthology of Self-selected poems by Fei Ma, Guizhou People's Press, 1993 * Autumn Window, anthology of English poems, Arbor Hill Press, Chicago, 1995; 2nd Edition, 1996 * The Microscopic World, Taichung Cultural C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chou Meng-tieh
Chou Meng-tieh (; 29 December 1921 – 1 May 2014) was a Taiwanese poet and writer. He lived in Tamsui District, New Taipei City. Biography He was born Chou Chi-shu in Xichuan County, Henan in 1921. In 1948, Chou joined the China Youth Corps and was forced to drop out of school. He was sent to Taiwan following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek's army in the Chinese Civil War, leaving his wife, two sons, and daughter behind in Mainland China. He settled in Tamsui District, New Taipei City. Chou started writing in the '' Central Daily News'' and publishing poetry in 1952. He retired from the army in 1955. In 1959, he started selling books outside the Cafe Astoria in Taipei and published his first book of poetry entitled ''Lonely County''. Chou's book stall became a gathering spot for well-known writers, such as Huang Chun-ming, Pai Hsien-yung, and Sanmao. Chou wrote often on the subjects of time, life, and death, and was influenced by Buddhism. In 1980, the American magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ching Hsiung Wu
John Ching Hsiung Wu (also John C. H. Wu; traditional Chinese: 吳經熊; pinyin: ''Wu Jingxiong''; March 28, 1899 – February 6, 1986) was a Chinese intellectual, jurist, and writer. He wrote works mainly in Chinese and English on jurisprudence, philosophy of law, Chinese literature, philosophy and religion, and Christian spirituality. He translated Chinese classics into English and the Psalms and the New Testament into literary Chinese. His works have been translated into about fifteen languages. A convert to Catholicism, he served as ambassador of the Republic of China to the Holy See and taught at several universities. Biography Born in 1899 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, in a traditional Chinese family, Wu began his education with a private Confucian tutor in 1905. From 1908 to 1911, Wu attended elementary school. From 1911, in addition to his classical education, he studied English and natural sciences. In 1916, he married Li Youti. In the same year, he attended the Shanghai B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loa Ho
Loa Ho () (28 May 1894 – 31 January 1943), real name Loa Ho (賴河) and Lai Kuie-ho, pen name Lan Yun, Fu San, An Tu-shêng, Hui, Tsou Chieh-hsien, Kung I-Chi, Lang, etc., was a Taiwanese poet who was born in Changhua County, Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan Province, Qing dynasty (modern-day Changhua, Taiwan). He was a medical doctor but was also a writer, poet, surgeon, and social activist from Changhua, Taiwan, having had enormous fame in literature. He founded the literature and arts column of ''The Taiwan Minpao'' and served as its editor-in-chief. Loa Ho nurtured many renowned Taiwanese writers, making a profound impact on the development of Taiwanese literature, and was therefore titled the "Father of Modern Taiwanese Literature" and the "Father of New Taiwanese Literature". He was one of the leading figures in the Taiwanese literary scene of the 1930s. Early life The majority of Loa Ho's works address difficulties that arose in Taiwanese society under Japanese c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
