Lin Tai-yi ( Chinese: 林太乙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Thài-it; April 1, 1926 [1] – July 2003) [2] was a Chinese-American writer and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. [3]
The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing [1] and came to the United States with her family when she was ten. Lin was educated at Columbia University. She taught Chinese at Yale. She married Richard Ming Lai, [4] a Hong Kong official and the couple moved to Hong Kong. Lin was the Editor-in-Chief for the Hong Kong Reader's Digest from 1965 to 1988. [3] She also wrote for various magazines. [1] Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988. [5]
She wrote her first novel War Tide (1943) at the age of 17. [4]
Her sister Adet Lin was also a writer. The two sisters translated Girl Rebel, the autobiography of Xie Bingying. [1]
Selected works [1]
- Our Family, autobiography (1939) with Adet Lin and Mei Mei Lin [4]
- Dawn over Chungking, autobiography (1941) with Adet Lin [4]
- War Tide, novel (1943)
- The Golden Coin, novel (1946)
- The Eavesdropper, novel (1959)
- The Lilacs Overgrow, novel (1960)
- Kampoon Street, novel (1964)
References
- ^ a b c d e Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 184. ISBN 0313289883.
- ^ "Obituary" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hong Kong Translation Society (42): 11. 2003.
- ^ a b Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. pp. 168–69. ISBN 978-0810855779.
- ^ a b c d Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 360–63. ISBN 0313309116.
- ^ Hamrin, Carol Lee; Bieler, Stacey (2011). Salt and Light: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China. Vol. 3. p. 157. ISBN 978-1621892908.
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- American emigrants to Hong Kong
- American women journalists
- Columbia University alumni
- Hong Kong novelists
- Chinese women novelists
- 21st-century Chinese journalists
- 21st-century Chinese women journalists
- 20th-century Chinese journalists
- 20th-century Chinese women journalists
- Yale University faculty
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Chinese writer stubs
- Chinese translator stubs
Lin Tai-yi ( Chinese: 林太乙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Thài-it; April 1, 1926 [1] – July 2003) [2] was a Chinese-American writer and translator. She was also known as Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang. [3]
The daughter of Lin Yutang, she was born in Beijing [1] and came to the United States with her family when she was ten. Lin was educated at Columbia University. She taught Chinese at Yale. She married Richard Ming Lai, [4] a Hong Kong official and the couple moved to Hong Kong. Lin was the Editor-in-Chief for the Hong Kong Reader's Digest from 1965 to 1988. [3] She also wrote for various magazines. [1] Lin and her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1988. [5]
She wrote her first novel War Tide (1943) at the age of 17. [4]
Her sister Adet Lin was also a writer. The two sisters translated Girl Rebel, the autobiography of Xie Bingying. [1]
Selected works [1]
- Our Family, autobiography (1939) with Adet Lin and Mei Mei Lin [4]
- Dawn over Chungking, autobiography (1941) with Adet Lin [4]
- War Tide, novel (1943)
- The Golden Coin, novel (1946)
- The Eavesdropper, novel (1959)
- The Lilacs Overgrow, novel (1960)
- Kampoon Street, novel (1964)
References
- ^ a b c d e Fister, Barbara (1995). Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 184. ISBN 0313289883.
- ^ "Obituary" (PDF). Bulletin of the Hong Kong Translation Society (42): 11. 2003.
- ^ a b Xu, Wenying (2012). Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater. pp. 168–69. ISBN 978-0810855779.
- ^ a b c d Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 360–63. ISBN 0313309116.
- ^ Hamrin, Carol Lee; Bieler, Stacey (2011). Salt and Light: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China. Vol. 3. p. 157. ISBN 978-1621892908.
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| National | |
| Other | |
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| This article about a Chinese writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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| This Chinese translator-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1926 births
- 2003 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American translators
- American emigrants to Hong Kong
- American women journalists
- Columbia University alumni
- Hong Kong novelists
- Chinese women novelists
- 21st-century Chinese journalists
- 21st-century Chinese women journalists
- 20th-century Chinese journalists
- 20th-century Chinese women journalists
- Yale University faculty
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Chinese writer stubs
- Chinese translator stubs