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Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai ( Chinese: 白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng; Wade–Giles: Pai Hsien-yung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pe̍h Sian-ióng; born July 11, 1937) is a Chinese writer based in Taiwan who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Kenneth Pai (Chinese: 白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng; Wade–Giles: Pai Hsien-yung) is considered one of the greatest living writers of Chinese fiction and an author of seminal works of Chinese modernism. He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of the Asia-Pacific War.
Pai Hsien-Yung collection. The manuscript collection of Pai Hsien-yung includes short stories in “Taipei people/台北人” and their English translations, “New Yorkers/紐約客”, the novel “Crystal boys/孽子”, and several essays. All the manuscripts were written between 1967-1999.
Jan 14, 2019 · Original, handwritten manuscripts by an author who has been called a Nobel Prize contender and compared to Ernest Hemingway are now available for everyone around the world to see. Pai Hsien-yung, also known as Kenneth Pai, was a professor of Chinese literature at UCSB from 1965 to 1994.
Prof. Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai 白先勇, Instructor | Coursera. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Bio. Prof. Pai is currently Wei Lun Professor of Humanities at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Pai is a world renowned writer, playwright and producer of Kunqu.
Pai Hsien-yung has topped the list of the most translated modernist writers from Taiwan. His diaspora-themed masterpiece Taipei People has been translated into several foreign languages.
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Oct 15, 2013 · Son of the prominent military general Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi), Pai Hsien-yung grew up in Guilin, Shanghai, and Hong Kong during the war years of the 1930s and 1940s. His family eventually resettled in Taiwan, where he received the remainder of his early schooling.
