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Sanmao (Chinese: 三毛; 26 March 1943 – 4 January 1991) was a Taiwanese writer and translator. Her works range from autobiographical writing, travel writing and reflective novels, to translations of ...
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Chiu Miao-Chin (Qiu Miaojin) (Chinese: 邱妙津; 29 May 1969 – 25 June 1995) was a Taiwanese novelist. Her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT li ...
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Chen Che (Chinese: 陳喆; pinyin: Chén Zhé; 20 April 1938 – 4 December 2024), better known by her pen name Chiung Yao (Chinese: 瓊瑤; pinyin: Qióngyáo), was a Taiwanese writer and film ...
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Yuan Chiung-chiung (Chinese: 袁瓊瓊; pinyin: Yuán Qióngqióng; Wade–Giles: Yüan Chʻiung-chʻiung; born 25 November 1950) is a Taiwanese writer whose family originated in Meishan, Sichuan, China ...
Taiwanese writer, environmentalist, and politician
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Chang Show-foong (Chinese: 張曉風; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎofēng; born 29 March 1941) is a Taiwanese environmentalist, writer, and politician. She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2012 and served until ...
Taiwanese scholar, writer, historian and archaeologist
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Chou Kung-shin (Chinese: 周功鑫; pinyin: Zhōu Gōngxīn; born 14 April 1947) is a Taiwanese scholar, writer, historian and archaeologist. She served as Director of National Palace Museum from May 2008 ...
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Feng Ming-chu (born 22 July 1950) is a Taiwanese historian who served as Director of National Palace Museum from September 2012 to 20 May 2016. She is also the director general of the Chinese Association ...
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Kuo Liang-hui (Chinese: 郭良蕙; 17 August 1926 in Kaifeng, Henan – 19 June 2013 in Taiwan) was a Taiwanese novelist. Several of her works were turned into films.
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Xi Murong (Chinese: 席慕容; pinyin: Xí Mùróng; born 1943) is a writer and painter. She is most famous for her poetry, especially the collections Qi li xiang (Seven-li scent) and Wuyuan de qingchun ...
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Wang Shaw-lan (Chinese: 王效蘭; pinyin: Wáng Xiàolán; born 1941) is a Taiwanese businesswoman who serves as the publisher of the United Daily News and the publishing-ceased Min Sheng Bao in Taiwan ...
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Chen Ruoxi (Chinese: 陳若曦; pinyin: Chén Ruòxī; born 15 November 1938) is a Taiwanese author. A graduate of National Taiwan University, she among others helped found the literary journal Xiandai ...
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Joyce Chi-Hui Liu (Chinese: 劉紀蕙) is Professor of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Liu is the Chair of the Institute of Social ...
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Hsu Hsueh-chi (Chinese: 許雪姬; born 1953) is a Taiwanese historian. She is a distinguished research fellow of the Academia Sinica and holds an adjunct professorship within National Taiwan Normal Uni ...
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Chuang Shu-chi (Chinese: 莊淑旂; pinyin: Zhuāng Shúqí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chng Siok-kî; 26 November 1920 – 4 February 2015) was the first licensed female practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine ...
Taiwanese translator and professor of English literature
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Chi Pang-yuan (Chinese: 齊邦媛; pinyin: Qí Bāngyuàn; 19 February 1924 – 28 February 2024) was a writer, academic, and Chinese–English translator. She has been instrumental in introducing Taiwanese ...
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Bi Pu (Chinese: 畢璞), born Zhou Sunshan (Chinese:周素珊) was a Chinese writer and translator, who was born in Guangzhou and later based in Taiwan.
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Fu Pei-mei (Chinese: 傅培梅; pinyin: Fù Péiméi; 1931 – 16 September 2004) was a Taiwanese chef. She wrote over 30 cookbooks on Chinese cuisine and produced and host cooking programs on Taiwan Tel ...
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Birei Kin (金 美齢, Kin Birei, Chinese: 金美齡; Wade–Giles: Kim Bi-Ling; born 7 February 1934, in Taihoku Prefecture, Taiwan under Japanese rule) is a Taiwan-born Japanese critic and political activist ...
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Juan Mei-shu or Ng Bi-chu (Chinese: 阮美姝; pinyin: Ruǎn Měishū; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ńg Bí-chu; 28 November 1928 – 28 November 2016) was a Taiwanese activist, musician, and researcher. Her father was ...