Shi Shuqing

Summary

Shi Shuqing (Chinese: 施叔青; Wade–Giles: Shih Shu-ch'ing; born 1945) is a Taiwan-Chinese writer and educator.[1]

She was born in Lukang, Changhua and is the sister of writer Li Ang. Shi was educated at Tamkang University and City University of New York.[which?] She taught at Taipei's National Chengchi University. In 1978, Shi moved to Hong Kong where she became director of Asian programs at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, later working as a consultant there.[2] She returned to Taiwan in 1997.[3]

Selected works[1] edit

  • The Barren Years and Other Short Stories and Plays, English translation (1975)[2]
  • 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 (2008)[4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Li-hua, Ying (2009). Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. pp. 167–68. ISBN 978-0810870819.
  2. ^ a b Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 297. ISBN 0415159806.
  3. ^ Chao-Mei, Tu (2008). Historical Narrative in Fiction: A Cross-cultural Exploration of Contemporary American and Chinese Fiction by Women Writers. p. 88. ISBN 978-1109784862.
  4. ^ Shu-mei, Shih; Ping-hui, Liao (2014). Comparatizing Taiwan. p. 142. ISBN 978-1317677840.