Chow Ching Lie

Chow Ching Lie ( Chinese  周勤 丽 , Pinyin Zhōu Qínlì ; born August 26, 1936 in Shanghai , Republic of China ) is a Chinese author , pianist and businesswoman who has lived in France since the 1960s .

Life

Chow comes from a poor Chinese family and grew up with four siblings. She attended a western-oriented Chinese school from the age of ten, and secretly became a Protestant there with her sister. At the age of thirteen, she was forcibly engaged to the sick son of a wealthy Chinese businessman in Shanghai. In 1950, at the age of fourteen, she married the man who had a heart defect and had had rheumatic fever since he was seventeen . In the same year their son was born, who was followed by a daughter in 1955. In 1959, her sick husband and his son moved to live with his parents in Hong Kong , and Chow went there in 1962. Her husband died two days after they arrived.

The young student Chow received lessons in music and piano at her high school. Her further education took place at the conservatory in her hometown. In 1964 she went to France to continue her training with the pianist Marguerite Long and decided at the age of 30 to make piano playing her profession. She brought her two children to France in 1968.

Since the 1970s, Chow has published four books in French, two of which have been published in German.

Publications

• Le Palanquin des larmes. an autobiography recorded by Georges Walter. Opéra Mundi, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-245-01031-0 .
  • German by Claudia Stadler: The sedan chair of tears . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-550-06260-5 .
• Le Concerto du Fleuve Jaune . Opéra Mundi, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-277-21202-4 .
  • German by Renate Orth-Guttmann : The pearls of the Buddha . Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-24364-9 .
• In the main de Bouddha . 2001.
• Il n'y a pas d'impasse sous le ciel . 2004.

filming

• 1988: Le Palanquin des larmes. Director: Jacques Dorfmann.

Web links

• Chow Ching Lie in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chow is the family name here, Ching Lie is the first name.