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Da Chen


Born
Fujian, China
Died
December 17, 2019

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Da Chen (born in 1962 in Fujian, China) was a Chinese author whose works include Brothers, China's Son, Sounds of the River, Sword, and Colors of the Mountain. A graduate of Beijing Language and Culture University and Columbia Law School, Da Chen lived in the Hudson Valley in New York but then moved to Torrance, California with his wife, the paranormal romance author Sunni, and two children. Brothers has been awarded best book of 2006 by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald and Publishers Weekly.

Chen passed away on December 17, 2019 at his home in Temecula, California from lung cancer.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 5,779 ratings · 694 reviews · 26 distinct worksSimilar authors
Colors of the Mountain: A M...

3.96 avg rating — 2,810 ratings — published 1999 — 25 editions
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Brothers

3.76 avg rating — 1,394 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions
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Sounds of the River: A Youn...

4.04 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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China's Son: Growing Up in ...

3.74 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
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My Last Empress

2.64 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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Girl Under a Red Moon: Grow...

3.64 avg rating — 166 ratings4 editions
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Wandering Warrior

3.42 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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Sword

3.12 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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Bitter Flower

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Analysis of strikes in Chin...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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“Do you still want to be a farmer?' Mom asked.
I shook my head.
'Then study hard. You can choose your future, your sisters and brother can't. You're lucky. If they had blisters like yours, they would still have to be there till the last stem was harvested. It's their life.”
Da Chen, Colors of the Mountain: A Memoir

“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.”
Da Chen, Colors of the Mountain: A Memoir

“Writers write for various reasons. I write because my heart demands so. There is so much freedom in the simple act of sitting there, holding up my hands, waiting to pound on the computer keyboard, waiting for words to pour from the tips of my fingers and compose the melody of life from the faded tapestry of my past.”
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