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  • A Lifetime in Chinese Literature (2015)
  • 95 min | Documentary
A Lifetime in Chinese Literature (2015)
95 min | Documentary
A Lifetime in Chinese Literature documents notable Taiwan writer, scholar and translator Wen-yue Lin. Born in Shanghai in 1933, she grew up in the city's Japanese-controlled International Settlement zone until 1946 when she moved to Taiwan...See moreA Lifetime in Chinese Literature documents notable Taiwan writer, scholar and translator Wen-yue Lin. Born in Shanghai in 1933, she grew up in the city's Japanese-controlled International Settlement zone until 1946 when she moved to Taiwan at the age of 12. The granddaughter of Taiwan historian Lian Heng, Lin would explore the effects of history in her own prose recalling a childhood swept up by the turbulent changes of the era. As a translator, she took on the great undertaking of translating the Japanese classical literary masterpiece The Tale of Genji. See less
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Yi Chi | Pei-Yi Liu
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Christina Liang
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Hsiao-Tong Chen
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Updated Dec 18, 2015
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Dec 18, 2015 (Taiwan)

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