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Name
  
Yu Lihua


Role
  
Writer

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Education
  
National Taiwan University

Books
  
Recallections [sic] of Qing River

Born
  
28 November 1931(age 88)  Shanghai, Republic of China
Died
  
1 May 2020 (aged 88) Washington D.C., U.S.

Yu Lihua (於梨華) (28 November 1931 – 1 May 2020) was a Taiwanese-American woman writer.

Yu Lihua was born in Shanghai and went to university in Taiwan, taking history at National Taiwan University. Then she went to the United States to do a graduate degree in journalism at UCLA and then to teach Chinese literature in the Department of Comparative University at the State University of New York.

She has published both in English and in Chinese. Her fiction is finely crafted. She excels in psychodramas.

Death

On 1 May 2020, Yu died of COVID-19 in Washington during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

References

Yu Lihua Wikipedia