Yang Chian-Ho (Chinese: 楊千鶴; pinyin: Yáng Qiānhè; 1921-2011) was a Taiwanese journalist who is considered Taiwan's first woman journalist.[1]
Biography
editYang Chian-Ho was born in Taihoku in 1921. She was educated in Japanese as Taiwan was under Japanese rule at the time, and graduated from Taihoku Women's College. She initially worked as a journalist for the Taiwan-based Japanese newspaper Taiwan Daily News (the largest newspaper in Taiwan at the time).[2]
She also wrote essays and short stories. In 1942 she published a short story, The Season When Flowers Bloom, which reflects on women's choices in upper-middle class society and the social expectations pushing them toward marriage. In 2023, the original Japanese text was translated into English, Chinese and Taiwanese by her daughter, Chimei Lin Chen.[3] In 1993, Yang published her memoir, Prism of Life[4] in Japanese and translated into Chinese in 1995.
References
edit- ^ Sokolsky, Anne (2010-01-01). "Yang Qianhe and Huang Fengzi: Two Voices of Colonial Taiwan". Japan Studies Association Journal. 8: 239–266.
- ^ Ann Heylen and Scott Sommers (2010). Becoming Taiwan: From Colonialism to Democracy. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 174.
- ^ Yang Chian-Ho (2023). The Season When Flowers Bloom. Translated by Chihmei Lin Chen. Avanguard Publishing House.
- ^ Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. "Translating kominka: Shaping narratives of Japanese rule in Taiwan through translation post-1975". Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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