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Wang Tuoh (Chinese: 王拓; pinyin: Wáng Tuò; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Thok; 9 January 1944 – 9 August 2016) was a Taiwanese writer, public intellectual, literary critic, and politician. He was born in ...
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Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (Chinese: 白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng; Wade–Giles: Pai Hsien-yung, born July 11, 1937) is a Chinese writer from Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." ...
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Lai He (Chinese: 賴和; pinyin: Lai He; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Loā Hô) (28 May 1894 – 31 January 1943) was a Taiwanese poet who was born in Changhua Hsien, Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan-Province, Qing ...
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Huang Chun-ming (Chinese: 黃春明; born 13 February 1935) is a Taiwanese literary figure and teacher. Huang writes mainly about the tragic and sometimes humorous lives of ordinary Taiwanese people, and ...
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Wu Nien-jen (Chinese: 吳念真; pinyin: Wú Niànzhēn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Liām-chin; born Chinese: 吳文欽; pinyin: Wú Wēnqīn; 5 August 1952 in Ruifang Township, Taipei County, Taiwan) is a scri ...
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Wang Wen-hsing (Chinese: 王文興; pinyin: Wáng Wénxìng; Wade–Giles: Wang Wên-hsing) was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, in 1939 and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures ...
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Shi-Kuo Chang (Chinese: 張系國; pinyin: Zhāng Xìgūo; Wade–Giles: Chang Hsi-kuo) is a computer scientist and writer famous for his science fiction writing. Chang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and ...
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Chang Ta-chun (Chinese: 張大春; pinyin: Zhāng Dàchūn; Wade–Giles: Chang Ta-ch'un) (14 June 1957) is a notable Taiwanese author and literary critic. He is the author of many novels, two of which ...
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Cheng Ch'ing-wen (Chinese: 鄭清文; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chheng-bûn; 16 September 1932 – 4 November 2017) was a Taiwanese writer and a graduate of National Taiwan University. He worked at the then gov ...
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Chen Yingzhen (Chinese: 陳映真; 8 November 1937 – 22 November 2016) was a Taiwanese author. Chen is also notable for having served a prison sentence for "subversive activity" between 1968 and 1973. He ...
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Chung Chao-cheng (Chinese: 鍾肇政; 20 January 1925 - 16 May 2020) was a sixth-generation Hakka writer, born and raised in Taiwan. He is a proponent and promoter of Taiwan Nativist Literature. "We are ...
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Tao Te-san (born 24 August 1955), better known by his pen name Kuo Cheng, is a Taiwanese fiction writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays of several films directed by Ho Ping and Kevin ...
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Wang Jui-cheng (Chinese: 王瑞振; pinyin: Wáng Ruìzhèn; 6 December 1953 – 16 February 2017), known by his pen name Wang Ben-hu (汪笨湖) was a Taiwanese writer and television presenter.