Chu Tien-hsin

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chu.
Chu Tien-hsin
Born 朱天心
(1958-03-12) March 12, 1958
Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
Alma mater National Taiwan University
Taipei First Girls' High School
Occupation Writer
Spouse(s) Xie Caijun
(1984－)
Children 1
Parent(s) Chu Hsi-ning
Liu Musha
Relatives Chu Tien-wen
(sister)
Chu Tien-yi
(sister)

Chu Tien-hsin (Chinese: 朱天心; pinyin: Zhū Tiānxīn; born 1958) is a Taiwanese writer.[1]

The daughter of army writer Chu Hsi-ning and translator Liu Musha, she is the younger sister of writer Chu Tien-wen and elder sister of writer of Chu Tien-yi.[2] Chu began writing in high school and her early short stories and essays were published in 1977 as Fangzhou shang de rizi (Days on the ark) and Jirang ge (Songs of rustic pleasures). She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School and then studied history at National Taiwan University. In 1984, she married writer and editor Xie Caijun. Their daughter was born in 1986. She wrote a number of articles for the weekly China Times.[1]

Chu was influenced in her development as a writer by her father and also by writer and editor Hu Lancheng.[3] In her work, she explores the challenges of reestablishing and maintaining cultural identity in a modern world.[2]

Chu is a member of the advocacy group The Alliance for Ethnic Equality which opposes the exploitation of ethnic differences for political gain.[4] In 2012, she was part of a group lobbying for the creation of an independent agency responsible for animal protection.[5]

Selected works[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 362–63. ISBN 0415159806.
  2. 1 2 3 Chen, Lingchei Letty (2006). Writing Chinese: Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity. pp. 64–76. ISBN 1403982988.
  3. ↑ Mostow, Joshua S (2003). The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature. pp. 584–. ISBN 0231113145.
  4. ↑ Green, Robert (August 1, 2007). "Searching for the Past". Taiwan Review.
  5. ↑ "Animal rights activists call for an independent agency". China Post. May 3, 2012.


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