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Hudson Wei

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Hudson Wei is a Taiwanese American novelist, actor, musician, and Certified Fraud Examiner. Raised in Taipei and the United States, his fiction explores family, migration, identity, memory, and the forces that shape lives across generations. He writes under the pen name Hudson Wei; his legal name is Lee Way Lan.

His debut novel, *ABACUS*, is a multigenerational family saga spanning wartime China, postwar Taiwan, and the United States. Inspired in part by the life of the grandfather who raised him, the novel explores sacrifice, political upheaval, immigration, and the complicated inheritance passed from one generation to the next.

His background spans film and television, music, and a professional career in fraud and financial risk. He lives i ...more

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Hudson Wei liked Wilana Smidt's review of ABACUS: "ABACUS by Hudson Wei This multi-generational family saga had me hooked from early on. Huang Jīnchéng grows up in war-torn Wuhan and is sent away at just fourteen. From there, we follow his life and that of his family through wartime China, postwar Tai" Read more of this review »
Oct 26, 2026 01:23PM · see review
Hudson Wei made a comment on Frankie Day’s review of ABACUS " Dear Frankie, Thank you so much for reading ABACUS and for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful review. I also really appreciate your comments ...more "
Oct 02, 2026 03:44PM · see review
Hudson Wei made a comment on Som’s review of ABACUS " Dear Som, Thank you so much for this incredibly thoughtful review. I’m genuinely grateful that you spent the time with ABACUS and connected so deeply ...more "
Oct 02, 2026 03:44PM · see review
Hudson Wei made a comment on Nazra’s review of ABACUS " Dear Nazra, Thank you so much for catching the cigarette-count continuity issue. You were absolutely right, and I’ve corrected it in the latest edition ...more "
Oct 02, 2026 03:42PM · see review
Hudson Wei liked Frankie Day's review of ABACUS: "I finished Abacus in about an afternoon, and I will say that it's a terrific story with solid characters that keep you intrigued until the very end. It's the story of Jingcheng Huang, who starts off as a boy traveling away from his family to find saf" Read more of this review »
Oct 02, 2026 03:31PM · see review
Hudson Wei liked Som's review of ABACUS: "This one honestly felt like reading somebody’s entire family history while slowly realizing how every little decision keeps showing up again in the next generation. It starts with Jīnchéng as a fourteen-year-old trying to survive wartime China, and I" Read more of this review »
Oct 02, 2026 03:31PM · see review
Hudson Wei liked Nazra's review of ABACUS: "Abacus gripped me from the very beginning. There was a sense almost immediately that something was coming, and the anticipation was handled really well. What begins with a fourteen-year-old Jingcheng being sent away from his family during wartime eve" Read more of this review »
Oct 02, 2026 01:48PM · see review
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Hudson Wei made a comment on Natalie Charles’s review of ABACUS " Natalie, thank you so much for this thoughtful and generous review. I’m deeply grateful that the themes of family, memory, sacrifice, and inherited re ...more "
Jul 30, 2026 02:28PM · see review
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