Chuan Sha

Chuan Sha
Chuan Sha
	A photograph of Chuan Sha taken in 2012
Born	Yin Xiangze; 1952

Chuan Sha (川沙) is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and author. He has written novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays and literary reviews.^[1]

Biography

Chuan Sha was born in Chongqing in Sichuan Province, though he has ancestry in Shandong Province. After graduating from Sichuan University, he worked as editor-in-chief for a literary magazine for some years before pursuing further studies in the United Kingdom in 1991. He has lived since 1999 with his family in Toronto.

He has been editor-in-chief for two Canada publishing houses and for a number of local newspapers. He is now the Director of the Chinese-Canadian Poets Association, Dean of Daya Institute of Cultures of Canada, Co-Chair of the Daya Literary Prize Committee, and CEO of the Daya Academic Evaluation and Judgment Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Chinese PEN Society of Canada.

Works

Prose

The Lady in the Blue-Flowered Mandarin Gown 蓝花旗袍 (Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House, China, June 2012) ISBN 9787551103480 - novel
The Sunlight (Taiwan Commercial Press, Ltd., November 2004) - novel
The Sojourners (Taiwan Buffalo Publishing House, May 2004) - short stories, co-authored

Poetry

Appreciation: Selected Poems of Chuan Sha 川沙诗歌精品欣赏 (Hebei Education Press, China, June 2010) ISBN 9787543477209
"The Wolves are Roaring", translated by Liu Hong, in Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar (W. W. Norton & Company, U.S.A., 2008)
Spring Night 春夜集 (Guangxi Normal University Press, February 2006) ISBN 9787563359301
contribution to Variety Crossing Vol. 8 (Korean-Canadian Literary Forum, 21 Press, 2006)
The Shadowy Crowds (China's Writers Printing House, November 2001)

Performances

Harmony. Original poetry edited in 6-Act Choir. Public performances given in the P.C. Ho Theatre on November 1, 2008.^[2]
The Skirts Are Singing. Original Poetry edited in 4-Act Musical. Public performances in O.I.S.E. Theatre, University of Toronto, and in York Woods Public Library Theatre, 2005.

References

^ Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar (W. W. Norton, 2008), p. 610.
^ Reviewed in Global Chinese Press^[usurped], Toronto, 3 November 2008.

External links

[1] Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar (W. W. Norton, 2008), p. 610.

[2] Reviewed in Global Chinese Press^[usurped], Toronto, 3 November 2008.

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