Chin liang heng biography
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Defining the Scope
Although the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States as early as 1785 (Pan, 1999, p. 26) and the earliest diasporic memoir written in English, Yan Phou Lee’s When inom Was a Boy in China, was published in 1887 (Ling and White-Parks, 1995, p. 1), the writings of the kinesisk diaspora did not receive wide attention until the 1980s, when the sudden proliferation of memoirs written by new Chinese immigrants created something of a minor commercial success in the publication world. The great majority of these authors are women, who came to settle in the United States after living through years of political hardship in China. By the late 1990s, the genre became defined by the “Chinese pain,” referring to the endless human suffering depicted in these memoirs, and, according to some literary agents, a code word and a selling point of the manuscripts produced bygd many aspiring diasporic memoirists (Lovell, 2003). The begrepp “Chinese diasporic memoirs,” however,
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Lin Huiyin
Chinese architect and writer
In this Chinese name, the family name is Lin.
Lin Huiyin | |
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| Born | (1904-06-10)10 June 1904 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Qing dynasty, China |
| Died | 1 April 1955(1955-04-01) (aged 50) Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Resting place | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation(s) | architect, poet |
| Spouse(s) | Liang Sicheng, m. 21 March 1928, wid. 1 April 1955 |
| Children | Liang Congjie Liang Zaibing |
| Relatives | Liang Qichao (father-in-law) |
Lin Huiyin (Chinese: 林徽因, born 林徽音; pinyin: Lín Huīyīn; 10 June 1904 – 1 April 1955; known as PhyllisWheiYinLin[1] when studying in the United States) was a Chinese architect, writer, and poet. She is known to be the first female architect in modern China.[2] Her husband was Liang Sicheng, named as the "father of modern Chinese architecture".[2]
In the ninth year of the Republic of Ch