Wang Wen-hsing
Wang Wen-hsing (Chinese: 王文興; pinyin: Wáng Wénxìng; Wade–Giles: Wang2 Wên2-hsing4) was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, in 1939 and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[1] He returned to NTU's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures to teach, retiring in 2005 at the rank of Professor.[2]
His first novel, Family Catastrophe (Chinese: 家變; pinyin: Jiābiàn), was published in 1972, a story about a runaway father and a son who takes over the household in his stead. He has also published a novel entitled Backed Against the Sea (Chinese: 背海的人; pinyin: Bèi Hǎi de Rén) as well as several collections of short stories.
Bibliography of English translations[]
Books[]
Novels[]
- Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel. Tr. Susan Wan Dolling. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2011.
- Backed Against the Sea. Trs. Ed. Gunn. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 1993.
Collections[]
- Endless War: Fiction and Essays by Wang Wen-hsing. Eds. Shu-ning Sciban and Fred Edwards. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 2011.
Uncollected short works[]
- "The Man in Black." Tr. Shen Li-fen. In Chi Pang-yuan et al., eds., An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature. Taipei: National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1975, II, 309–318.
- "Flaw." Tr. Ch'en Chu-yün. In Joseph S. M. Lau and Timothy A. Ross, eds., Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960–1970. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
- "Such a Symphony of Written Characters One Must Not Allow to Disperse." Tr. Helmut Martin. In Martin, ed., Modern Chinese Writers: Self-portrayals. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992, 194–95.
Notes and references[]
- ^ Sandrine Marchand, A Jump Over The Gap of History: An Incursion in Wang Wenxing's Fictions
- ^ (In Chinese.) Retired Faculty, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
External links[]
- Regularly maintained bibliography of translated works by Wang Wenxing at the MCLC translation database
- Wang Wenhsing Website constructed by National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan.
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