Yang Qianhe

Yang Qianhe (or Yang Chiang-Ho in Wade-Giles; 楊千鶴 in Chinese characters) (1921–2011) was a Taiwanese journalist, and considered Taiwan's first woman journalist.[1]

Biography

Yang Qianhe was born in Taipei in 1921. She was educated in Japanese as Taiwan was under Japanese control at this time, and graduated from Taipei Women's College. She initially worked as a journalist for a Taiwan-based Japanese newspaper Taiwan Daily News.[2]

She also wrote novels and short stories. In 1942 she published a short story, The Seasons When Flowers Bloom, which reflects on women's choices in upper-middle class society and social expectations on women to marry.[3] In 1995 she published her memoir, Prism of Life.[4]

References
  1. Sokolsky, Anne (2010-01-01). "Yang Qianhe and Huang Fengzi: Two Voices of Colonial Taiwan". Japan Studies Association Journal. 8: 239–266.
  2. Ann Heylen and Scott Sommers (2010). Becoming Taiwan: From Colonialism to Democracy. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 174.
  3. "The Seasons When Flowers Bloom by Yang Qianhe". 13 August 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  4. Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. "Translating kominka: Shaping narratives of Japanese rule in Taiwan through translation post-1975". Retrieved 20 May 2021.


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