Yuan Qiongqiong
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| Born: | 1950 Taiwan |
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| Occupation: | novelist, essayist, screenwriter, poet |
| Genres: | Romance |
| Influences: | Eileen Chang |
Yuan Qiongqiong, Yuan Ch'iung-ch'iung, was a writer from Taiwanborn in 1950. Yuan wrote poetry, fiction, essays, film, and television scripts, during the Boudoir literature period for women. Boudoir literature is a form of writing that focuses on issues of women. Some aspects of women’s lives that were depicted in her writings were: role in family, anxieties, romantic relationships, aspirations, and role in the work place. Yuan Qiongqiong’s writings were inspired by the writings of an influential Chinese writer named, Eileen Chang. Chang led liberation for female Taiwanese writers. Both Yuan and her predecessor Chang, loved writing romances that weakened stereotypes of women.
[edit] Writings
As Yuan exposed the role of women in their families, workplace, and other aspects of life, the women in her stories typically accomplished a financial feat. Either they achieved financial independence, or she showed the financial prosperity of the flourishing middle-class. Her writings attempt to expose what women can do independent from men. In contrast to Eileen Chang's work, which negatively depicted the societal status in China, Yuan was raised in a middle-class family and did not write about her animosity towards the economical differences of the society. The majority of the economy in post-war Taiwan, was middle-class. In fact, Yuan greatly appreciated the middle-class life and often showed that appreciation through her literature. Yuan often ended her stories with a question and left the story unresolved. Traditional Taiwan short stories ended resolved, without any questions left at the end.
Yuan Qiongqiong's recent work often deals with young people dealing with the inner conflict of an external experience.
[edit] Works
A Lover's Ear
Spring Water Boat
A Sky of One's Own
Fantasy Bug
Even-Glow
Beyond Words
The Old House That Stood for 30 Years
A Place of One's Own
The Sky's Escape
Tales of Taipei
The Mulberry Sea
Empty Seat
[edit] Sources
1. Sudden Fiction International, Shapard, Robert, Thomas, James. New York, NY: 1989, pp 336.
2. Literary Culture in Taiwan, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, West-Sussex, NY: 2004, pp 171-175.
3. Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage of Eileen Zhang Among Taiwan's Feminine Writers: The Eileen Zhang Phenomenon, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
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