Qiu Miaojin

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Qiu.

Qiu Miaojin (Chinese: 邱妙津; 1969-1995) was a lesbian^[1] author from Changhua, Taiwan.

She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School, and the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University. Later she worked at The Journalist (新新聞) as a reporter. In 1994 she went to Paris to study clinical psychology and feminism.

Her death was a suicide.

Her most famous book was Diary of a Crocodile (鱷魚手記), published in 1991. Luo Yijun's book Forgetting Sorrow 遣悲懷 was written in her memory.

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1. ^ Sang, Tze-Lan D (2003), The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China, University of Chicago Press, p. 159, ISBN 0226734803