Yang Chian-Ho (Wade-Giles) or Yang Qianhe (Pinyin) (楊千鶴 in Chinese characters or Kanji), 1921–2011, was a Taiwanese journalist, and considered Taiwan's first woman journalist.[1]

Biography

Yang Chian-Ho was born in Taipei in 1921. She was educated in Japanese as Taiwan was under Japanese control at this time, and graduated from Taipei Women's College. She initially worked as a journalist for a Taiwan-based Japanese newspaper Taiwan Daily News.[2]

She also wrote essays and short stories. In 1942 she published a short story, The Seasons When Flowers Bloom, which reflects on women's choices in upper-middle class society and social expectations on women to marry. In 2023, the original text in Japanese 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

  1. ↑ Sokolsky, Anne (2010-01-01). "Yang Qianhe and Huang Fengzi: Two Voices of Colonial Taiwan". Japan Studies Association Journal. 8: 239–266.
  2. ↑ Ann Heylen and Scott Sommers (2010). Becoming Taiwan: From Colonialism to Democracy. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 174.
  3. ↑ Yang Chian-Ho (2023). The Season When Flowers Bloom. Translated by Chihmei Lin Chen. Avanguard Publishing House.
  4. ↑ 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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