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張愛玲
Eileen Chang
b. 1920, Shanghai
d. 1995, Los Angeles |
A writer who frequently dealt with the tensions between men and women in love. She wrote during the 1940’s,
and scholars consider her work to be the best Chinese writing of the period. She wrote
of Japanese occupied Shanghai. Her book, Lust, Caution, was made into a critically acclaimed
movie under director Ang Lee.
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張純如
Iris Chang
b. 1968, Princeton, NJ
d. 2004, Los Gatos, CA |
Author of historical, non-fiction books. She is best known for the
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, a bestseller which many
thought a necessary reminder of a painful event although doubters questioned its inaccuracy,
She is also the author of Thread of the Silkworm,
the biography of Tsien Hsue-shen, a Chinese American scientist who was a victim of McCarthy era paranoia
and deported to China, where he subsequently became the father of the Chinese missile program. Her last
book was The Chinese in America: A Narrative History |
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趙健秀
Frank Chin
b. 1940, Berkeley, CA
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Controversial novelist, playwright, and essayist. He wrote the
Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon, which challenged the accepted stereotypes. These plays were some of the first
professionally-produced Asian American plays. His novels include
Donald Duk and
Gunga Din Highway. His essays include
Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays.
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黃哲倫
David Henry Hwang
b. 1957, Los Angeles
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Playwright. His first play, F.O.B.,
was produced while still a student at Stanford University. Although many of his
plays are based on the Chinese American experience, Hwang has also written
on other subjects and even wrote the libretto for a multimedia play called
1000 Airplanes on the Roof: A Science Fiction Music Drama. His most
successful play and winner of the 1988 Tony Award,
M Butterfly, was based on the true story of a French diplomat and his
Chinese lover who turned out to be a spy and a man. More recently, he
wrote a more personal play called Golden Child.
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任碧蓮
Gish Jen
b. 1956, Scarsdale, NY
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Author of short stories and novels. Her first novel,
Typical American, follows the story of Ralph Chang, a Chinese immigrant
in search of the American dream. Its sequel,
Mona in the Promised Land, continues the story with Ralph's daughter
Mona, a teenager converting to Judaism. Jen also published a collection of
short stories called Who's Irish?: Stories |
