Chi Ta-wei

Chi Ta-wei (Chinese: 紀大偉; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kí Tāi-úi, born February 3, 1972) is a Taiwanese writer.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ji (Chi).
Chi Ta-wei
紀大偉
Chi Ta-wei.
Chi Ta-wei.
Native name
紀大偉
Born(1972-02-03)3 February 1972
Taichung, Taiwan
OccupationWriter
NationalityTaiwanese
Alma materNational Taiwan University
Chi Ta-wei
Traditional Chinese紀大偉
Simplified Chinese纪大伟

Life

Chi Ta-wei was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1972. He attended National Taiwan University, graduating from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, and received a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches literature at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan.

Career

Chi Ta-wei is most well-known for his science fiction novel Membrane (膜, 1996), which was one of the first queer novels to be published in Chinese.[1]

He has also published various short story collections and volumes of critical essays on queer and science-fiction literature, and translated several foreign works into Chinese, including a series of novels by Italian author Italo Calvino.[2]

Works

Works in Chinese (partial)
  • Sensory World (感官世界, 1995)
  • Membrane (膜, 1996)
  • Queer Carnival (酷兒狂歡節, 1997)
  • Goodnight, Babylon: Sexuality, Dissent, and Political Reading for the Internet Generation (晚安巴比倫：網路世代的性慾、異議與政治閱讀, 1998)
  • Fetishism (戀物癖, 1998)
  • A History of Tongzhi Literature: The Invention of Taiwan (同志文學史：台灣的發明, 2017)

Works in translation
  • "A Stranger's ID" in Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan (2003),[3] translated by Fran Martin
  • Membrane (膜, 2015), translated by Gwennaël Gaffric
  • Perles (珍珠, 2020), translated by Olivier Bialais, Gwennaël Gaffric, Coraline Jortay, and Pierrick Rivet
  • The Membranes (2021), translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
  • Membrana (膜, 2022),[4] translated by Alessandra Pezza
  • Membraner (2023),[5] translated by Astrid Møller-Olsen

References
  1. Fran Martin, Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture, Hong Kong University Press, 2003.
  2. Ji Dawei (Chi Ta-wei)
  3. A Stranger's ID
  4. Chi Ta-wei - Membrana
  5. Chi Ta-wei Membraner
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