Anchee Min
Anchee Min ( born January 14, 1957 in Shanghai as Mín Anqi, Chinese闵 安琪) is written in English language Chinese- American writer.
Life and work
Min was born the daughter of a teacher couple in Shanghai to the world. In 1974 she was sent to labor in an agricultural collective on the edge of the East China Sea ( Red Fire Farm). They left the camp after it was discovered there in 1976 by talent scouts as a film actress. Min should be in the film adaptation of a political Opera (Mao Zedong's wife) Jiang Qing, Red Azalea, participate. However, after Mao's death in September 1976 his widow fell into disfavor and the film product has been dropped. Min remained for six years as a secretary in the studio.
With the help of Joan Chen, who she met at drama school, got Min, 1984 in the United States of America, where she got by with odd jobs, began to learn English and be enrolled as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Your degree she earned in 1991. A tale of the Red Fire Farm, which she wrote for her writing class, was released in spring 1992 in the well-known British literary magazine Granta. This story was the starting point for Min's autobiography Red Azalea (1994 ), who was a settling of accounts with the Cultural Revolution and was enthusiastically received by critics.
In 1995 Mins first novel, Katherine (Land of my heart ), the story of an American teacher who is teaching English in China and is working on her dissertation; first successful, it fails spectacularly last. In this story, the cultures clash, and Min uses this confrontation for a portrait of modern China. In their 1999 published second novel, Becoming Madame Mao ( Madame Mao), Min traces the personality and life of Mao's wife Jiang Qing, who was a member of the Gang of Four, a driving force behind the Cultural Revolution and one of the most hated figures in the country. Wild Ginger ( Wild Ginger ), 2002, tells the story of a young woman who desperately struggling in the Cultural Revolution to social recognition and therefore makes the repressive party line gradually as its own. In their next novels Empress Orchid and the continuation band The Last Empress ( Empress on Dragon Throne 2004; The last empress 2007) applies Min is a past chapter of Chinese history and tells the story of the influential and often maligned Empress Dowager Cixi ( 1835-1908 ). In the center of Min's latest novel, Pearl of China (2010), is the author Pearl S. Buck.
Min was three years married to the painter Qigu Jiang and he has a daughter. She is currently married to the writer Lloyd Lofthouse and lives in San Francisco.