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Cheng Ch'ing-Wen

Born

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September 16, 1932

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 123 ratings · 11 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature by Joseph S.M. Lau (Editor), Howard Goldblatt (Editor), Ruowang Wang 4.28 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three-Legged Horse by Cheng Ch'ing-Wen, 郑清文 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zheng qing wen duan pian xiao shu xuan (in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) by Cheng Ch'ing-Wen, Qingwen Zheng 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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