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Pai Hsien-yung

Pai Hsien-yung was born in 1937 in Guangxi, the son of the Kuomintang general Bai Chongxi, and grew up moving with the war between Chongqing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Hong Kong, before joining Taiwan in 1952. A student of English literature in Taipei, he co-founded a modern literature magazine, then attended the Iowa writing workshop and taught Chinese literature at Santa Barbara from 1965 to 1994. He has also adapted kunqu opera for the stage.

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