Taiwan’s cultural celebrities and writers include Yu Guangzhong, Li Ao, Zhong Zhaozheng, Qiong Yao, Zeng Shiqiang, Lin Qingxuan, etc.

1. Yu Guangzhong

Yu Guangzhong (October 21, 1928 - December 14, 2017), a famous contemporary writer, poet, scholar, and translator, was born in Nanjing, his ancestral home. Yongchun, Fujian. Because her mother's native place is Wujin, Jiangsu, she also calls herself "Jiangnan native".

Graduated from Nanjing YMCA Middle School in 1947, entered the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literatures of Jinling University. In 1949, he transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literatures of Xiamen University. In 1952, he graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literatures of National Taiwan University. In 1959, he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa.

He has taught at Soochow University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University, and National Chengchi University. During this period, he was twice invited by the U.S. State Department to serve as a visiting professor at many universities in the United States. In 1972, he served as professor and director of the Department of Spanish at National Chengchi University.

From 1974 to 1985, he served as professor of the Chinese Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and concurrently served as the director of the Chinese Department of the United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong for two years. In 1985, he served as professor and chair professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, including concurrently serving as dean of the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Institute of Foreign Languages ??for six years.

Yu Guangzhong has been engaged in poetry, prose, commentary, and translation all his life. He calls himself the "fourth dimension" of his writing and is known as the "bright five-color pen" in the literary world. He has been in the literary world for more than half a century, covering a wide range of topics, and is known as an "artistic polygamist."

His literary career is long, vast and profound. He is a master of contemporary poetry, an important prose writer, a famous critic and an excellent translator. So far, 21 collections of poetry, 11 collections of prose, 5 collections of commentaries, 13 collections of translations, and more than 40 collections have been published.

Representative works include "White Jade Bitter Melon" (poetry collection), "Memory is as Long as Railroad Tracks" (prose collection) and "On the Watershed: Collected Commentary of Yu Guangzhong" (commentary collection).

His poems such as "Nostalgia" and "Four Rhymes of Nostalgia" and prose such as "Listen to the Cold Rain" and "My Four Imaginary Enemies" are widely included in Chinese textbooks in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. ?

On December 14, 2017, Professor Yu Guangzhong passed away in Taiwan at the age of 89.

2. Li Ao

Li Ao (April 25, 1935 - March 18, 2018), male, named Ao Zhi, was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, a thinker and a free man. A master of socialism, a master of Chinese studies, a scholar of modern Chinese history, a critic of current affairs, a Taiwanese writer, a historian, and a poet.

A non-party person in Taiwan Province, who once served as a "legislator" in Taiwan. When his term expired in 2008, he announced his withdrawal from the political arena in Taiwan Province. Because of his sharp writing style and strong critical tone, he can express both laughter and anger, so he calls himself "the first person in Chinese vernacular writing".

"To wake up the world with cynical treatment, and to save the world with scolding", there are more than 100 books including "Beijing Fayuan Temple", "Impotence America", "Li Ao has something to say", "Red 11", etc. , ninety-six of his works were banned, setting a historical record, and he was sought after by the Western media as "the most outstanding critic in modern China".

"The Complete Works of Li Ao" is a collection of most of his works, with a total of 80 volumes and 30 million words. In September 2005, he visited mainland China and delivered a series of lectures titled "Vajra's Angry Eyes, Bodhisattva's Low Brows, and Nun's Thoughts on Extraordinary Things" at three top universities: Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University.

On March 18, 2018, Li Ao unfortunately passed away in Taipei at the age of 83.

3. Zhong Zhaozheng

Zhong Zhaozheng (January 20, 1925 -), a Taiwanese novelist, is a Taiwanese Hakka. He was born in Longtanzhuang, Daxi County, Hsinchu Prefecture, Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. The courtesy name is Jiuzoliao (now part of Longtan Township, Taoyuan County).

In his early years, he attended Tamkang Middle School and graduated from Changhua Youth Normal School. During his military service, he suffered from hearing impairment due to a high fever that persisted. After the war, he studied in the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University, but had to drop out due to hearing impairment.

Zhong Zhaozheng was a primary school teacher, a lecturer in the Eastern Languages ??Department of Soochow University, the chairman of the Taiwan Hakka Public Affairs Association, and the presidential counselor.

In 1966, he won the China Literary Medal Novel Creation Award from the China Literary and Art Association. In 1979, he won the Wu Sanlian Literary Award. In 1999, he won the National Literary Award. In 2000, Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui awarded him the Second Class Medal of Stars. .

In 2003 and 2004, Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian awarded the Lily Award of the Second Presidential Cultural Award and the Second-Class Qingyun Medal.

4. Qiong Yao

Qiong Yao (April 20, 1938 -), whose real name is Chen Zhe, was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, a contemporary Chinese writer, screenwriter, film and television producer, Chinese film literature Society member.

Her ancestral home is Zhajiang Town, Hengyang County, Hunan Province. She graduated from Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls’ High School. In addition to Qiong Yao, his pen names have also been Phoenix and Xinru.

The main representative works of Qiong Yao's novels include "Outside the Window", "The Sound of the Tide", "Between Water and Clouds", "A Dream Behind the Curtain", "Thousands of Knots in the Heart", "Plum Blossom Brand", "Seagull" "Flying Colorful Clouds" and "Colorful Clouds Fill the Sky" etc.

In 1949, Qiong Yao followed her father Chen Zhiping from mainland China to live in Taiwan. Later, he entered the ranks of professional writers, and successively entered the film and TV series production industry. When Qiong Yao was 16 years old, she published the novel "Cloud Shadow" under the pen name Xinru. When she was 25 years old, she published her first short story collection "Outside the Window".

Most of the novels written by Qiong Yao have been adapted into movies or TV series. The more famous ones include "The Deep Courtyard", "Three Plum Blossom Alleys" series, "Huan Zhuge Ge" series, etc.

5. Zeng Shiqiang

Zeng Shiqiang (August 28, 1934 - November 11, 2018), a master of Chinese traditional culture, a master of Chinese-style management, and the first Chinese-style management person in the world , known as the "Father of Chinese Management", served as the president of Taiwan Wisdom University, a professor at Taiwan Chiao Tung University, and the president of Taiwan Xingguo Management College.

Honorary Doctorate in Management Philosophy from Oxford University, UK, PhD in Management Philosophy from University of Leicester, UK, Master of Administrative Management from Truman University, USA, and Bachelor of Education from National Taiwan Normal University.

He is the author of "The Enlightenment of Hu Xueyan", "The Mystery of the Book of Changes", "Chinese Management", "Family Education", "Sun Tzu's Art of War and Human Automation", etc., and he is the most familiar to everyone. Speech in "Lecture Forum".

On November 15, 2010, the "2010 Fifth Rich List of Chinese Writers" was released. Zeng Shiqiang ranked fifth on the rich list of writers with a royalty income of 7.8 million yuan.

At 19:54 on November 11, 2018, Zeng Shiqiang passed away peacefully in Taiwan at the age of 84.

6. Lin Qingxuan

Lin Qingxuan (February 26, 1953 - January 23, 2019) was born in Qishan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province, China. He graduated from Taiwan World Journalism College.

Contemporary writers, essayists, poets, and scholars have pen names such as Qin Qing, Lin Li, Lin Dabei, Lin Wanxi, Xia'an, Qingxuan, Yuanting, etc.

Lin Qingxuan is the author of the prose "The Cuckoo of Chataka", and the articles "Racing Time" and "Mahogany" were selected into the primary school Chinese textbooks of the People's Education Press and Beijing Normal University Edition.

He once served as a reporter for the overseas edition of Taiwan's "China Times", an economic reporter for "Business Times", and the editor-in-chief of "Times Magazine". He is the most prolific writer in Taiwan and the one who has won the most literary awards. He is also known as one of the "Eight Great Contemporary Prose Writers".

On January 23, 2019, Lin Qingxuan passed away at the age of 65.

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