Name Chung Li-ho Role Novelist | Siblings Chung Hao-Tung | |
 | ||
Died August 4, 1960, Meinong District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan People also search for Chung Chao-cheng, Chung Hao-Tung, Chung Fan-Shu | ||
Zhong Lihe (Chinese: 鍾理和, otherwise spelled as Chung Li-ho, also known as Chûng Lî-fò or Tsûng Li-fô when transliterated from Hakka); November 6, 1915 – August 4, 1960, was a Taiwanese novelist. He was a Liudui Hakka (Chinese: 六堆客家人), born in Gaoshu Township, Pingtung in 1915, who migrated to Meinong (nearby and also part of the same sub-division of the Liudui 六堆, the Youdui (Chinese: 右堆 右堆; now Meinong District, Kaohsiung City) in around 1932. Eloping with a woman because their same-surname relationship was taboo in their community, he resided in Shenyang and Beijing on the Chinese mainland - but, like Taiwan, under Japanese rule at the time - between 1938 and 1946. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Meinong whilst revising his last and possibly finest work, a novella entitled "Rain" Chinese: 雨.
Legacy
There is a Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute (Chinese: 鍾理和紀念館 dedicated to Zhong located in Meinong, Kaohsiung. His life has been dramatized as China, My Native Land (Chinese: 原鄉人; literally: The man from the native land), a 1980 film directed by Li Hsing; of which the eponymous theme song was sung by Teresa Teng. Zhong's eldest son Zhong Tiemin (otherwise spelled as Chung Tieh-min) (Chinese: 鍾鐵民), 1941-2011, was an award-winning writer of fiction and prose.