Pai Hsien-yung

Bái Xiānyǒng (also: Kenneth Hsien -yung Pai, Pai Hsien -yung, Chinese白先勇, Pinyin Bái Xiānyǒng; born July 11, 1937 in Guilin, China) is a Chinese author.

Biography

Bái Xiānyǒng came in northeast China as a child of the famous Kuomintang Generals and warlords Chongxi Bai ( Pai Chung- hsi ) to the world. He had nine brothers and sisters with whom he was brought up in the Muslim faith.

His family moved several times within mainland China, and lived for a time in Nanjing, Shanghai and Chongqing. Due to the events of the Chinese Civil War she fled to Hong Kong where Bái Xiānyǒng 1948 to 1952, the Catholic Boys College La Salle visited. 1952 the family moved to Taiwan. In 1956 he began to study hydraulic engineering at the University of Chenggong in Tainan, since he was planning to work on the Three Gorges Dam Project. Soon, however, he discovered his interest in literature and moved in 1957 to the National Taiwan University in Taipei to study English literature. In 1960 he founded, together with some other students of the literary magazine Modern Literature ( Xiandai wenxue ), in which he could show his talent and published his first works. In 1964 he received a scholarship to the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa and studied creative writing and literary theory. After 1964, he got his MA, he was a professor of Chinese literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the U.S., he joined the religion and became a Buddhist. Since 1994 Bái Xiānyǒng Emeritus ( UCSB ) and literary almost no longer active.

Characteristics

Most of his literary works wrote from the perspective of a marginalized figure who often experienced terrible and unheard Bái Xiānyǒng. He presents himself as a neutral observer and observes the emotional distance between the narrator and the narrated. His only novel, " sons of the evil " / Nièzǐ was filmed in 1986, where he wrote the screenplay.

Works

Filmography

Swell

  • Wolf construction epilogue in: Bai Xian Yong. " Alone with Seventeen ". Diederichs, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-424-00856-7, pp. 191-205
  • Wolf construction: " Literature and Literary Policy in Taiwan after 1945". In: Helmut Martin et al ( Ed.): " view over the sea. Chinese stories from Taiwan ". Frankfurt am Main 1982, p 16-42
  • Wolfgang Kubin: " The view from the edge. Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau " In: Wolfgang Kubin, "Chinese Literature in the 20th century. In the history of Chinese literature. Volume 7, Munich 2005, pp. 251-270
  • Bai Xian Yong: "The Chinese student movement abroad: writers in exile in the New World. Speech held in Singapore in 1981. " In: Bai Xianyong: " Mingxing guan Kafei: bai ji Xianyong lunwen zawen. " Taipei 1984 pp. 33-37. . German translation in: Helmut Martin ( ed.): " Bitter Dreams. Self- representations of Chinese writers ". Taipei 1992, p 199-205
  • Charlotte Dunsing: " Taiwanese reality in literature ." In: Helmut Martin: " view over the sea. Chinese stories from Taiwan ". Frankfurt 1982, p 385-400
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