Shi Shuqing

In this Chinese name, the family name is Shi.

Shi Shuqing (Chinese: 施叔青; Wade–Giles: Shih Shu-ch'ing; born 1945) is a Taiwan-Chinese writer and educator.^[1]

She was born in Lukang, Changhua and is the sister of writer Li Ang. Shi was educated at Tamkang University and City University of New York.^[which?] She taught at Taipei's National Chengchi University. In 1978, Shi moved to Hong Kong where she became director of Asian programs at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, later working as a consultant there.^[2] She returned to Taiwan in 1997.^[3] She is a chair professor in the Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University.^[4]

Selected works[1]

• The Barren Years and Other Short Stories and Plays, English translation (1975)^[2]
• Yi ye you : Xianggang de gu shi (One night journeys - Hong Kong stories, short stories (1985))
• Xianggang sanbuqu (Hong Kong trilogy) (1993, 1995, 1997)
• Weiduoliya julebu (The Victoria Club), novella (1993)
• Weixun caizhuang (Blush of intoxication), novel (1999)
• City of the Queen, novel translated by Howard Goldblatt (2008)^[5]