Cheng Ch'ing-Wen

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Cheng Ch'ing-Wen


Born
in Taiwan
September 16, 1932


Cheng Ch'ing-wen (鄭清文), born September 16, 1932, is a Taiwanese writer and a graduate of National Taiwan University. He worked at the government-run Hua Nan Bank for forty years. His works in English are generally under the transliteration Cheng Ch'ing-Wen and that is how he is described in many English-language publications published in Taiwan. The transliteration Tzeng Ching-wen is also used.

He is a leader of the Taiwanese "nativist" movement. Zheng [or Cheng] is a speaker of the Min Nan or Taiwanese "dialect" of Chinese. He graduated from elementary school in Taiwan with six years of instruction in Japanese, and only thereafter began to learn to write in Chinese[.]

A collection of twelve of his short stories, Three-Legged Horse, was made
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