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Yu Lihua
Taiwanese writer · Taiwan · On the map · Writers · Lived 1929 to 2020 · aged 90
Yu Lihua was a Taiwanese writer who wrote over thirty works - including novels, short stories, newspaper articles and translations - over sixty years. She is regarded as "one of the five most influential Chinese-born women writers of the postwar era and the progenitor of the Chinese students' overseas genre."
Yu Lihua is read about 13 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 16 June 2026
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About this person
She wrote primarily in Chinese, drawing on her experience as a Chinese émigré in postwar America. She was celebrated in the diaspora for giving voice to what she called the "rootless generation" - émigrés who had left for a better life but remained nostalgic for their homeland.
