Lilian Lee

Lilian Lee ( Chinese  李碧華 , Cantonese  Lee Pik-Wah ; born 1959 ) is a Hong Kong Chinese writer.

Life

Lilian Lee's Latinized name is used in various transcriptions, including Pik Wah Lee, Pi-hua Li and Bihua Li. The name may be a pseudonym.

Lee lives in Hong Kong, she is public shy, and only uncertain dates are known about her. After that, her upper-class merchant family came from Taishan Province . Lee worked as an elementary school teacher for a while.

Lee wrote several novels, some of which were made into films.

Works (selection)

• Pi-hua Li: Farewell to my concubine: a novel . New York: W. Morrow, 1993
  • Farewell my concubine . Translation Karl Georg. Munich: Goldmann, 1993 ISBN 978-3-442-42334-7
• Last princess of Manchuria . Translation into English Andrea Kelly. New York, NY: Morrow, 1992
  • The last princess: Roman . Translation Dörte Middelhauve, Frieder Middelhauve. Munich: Goldmann, 1993 ISBN 978-3-442-42286-9 (about Yoshiko Kawashima )

literature

• Yat-lim Lam: The society of Hong Kong in Lilian Lee's fiction . 李碧華 小說 中 的 香港 社會. University of Hong Kong, 2009
• Min Gan: The phantom returns: on Lilian Lee's three supernatural stories . Iowa City: University of Iowa, 2010 MA thesis University of Iowa 2010

This thesis, based on Green snake, The reincarnation of Golden Lotus, and Rouge, three novels written by Hong Kong author Lilian Lee, discusses the respective supernatural heroines in relation to the Chinese folklore and to the Hong Kong status quo before the 1997 handover, seeking to find the allegorical significance behind the heroines beyond the genre of fantastic.

Web links

• Literature by and about Li Bihua in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Lilian Lee in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Pik Wah Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lilian Lee Biography | Author of Farewell My Concubine , at Bookrags