Author · Taiwan
Yang Mu
Died in 2020
Wang Ching-hsien, who first signed Ye Shan and then, from 1972, Yang Mu, was born on 6 September 1940 in Hualien. After Tunghai University, he studied writing at the University of Iowa, then in 1971 defended at Berkeley a doctorate in comparative literature under the supervision of Chen Shih-hsiang. He taught at the University of Washington, of which he became professor emeritus, and helped found the faculty of humanities of National Dong Hwa University. With others he founded the Hongfan publishing house. He died on 13 March 2020, in Taipei.