Pai Hsien-yung

Novelist, Author

1937 –

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Who is Pai Hsien-yung?

Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai, born July 11, 1937 is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War. Pai's father was the famous Kuomintang general Bai Chongxi, whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings. He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after Japan's defeat in 1945.

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Born
Jul 11, 1937
Guilin
Also known as
  • Bái Xiānyǒng
  • Bai Xianyong
  • Xianyong Bai
Parents
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Taiwan
Profession
Education
  • National Taiwan University
  • University of Iowa
  • La Salle College
  • National Cheng Kung University
  • Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School
Lived in
  • Guangxi

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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