Lung Ying-tai

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Lung Ying-tai

Lung Ying-tai ( Chinese  龍應台 , Pinyin Lóng Yìngtái ) (born February 13, 1952 in Kaohsiung ) is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. Occasionally she writes under the pseudonym "Hu Meili" (胡美麗). From 2012 to 2014 she was the first Minister of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan) .

Lung's critical essays contributed to the democratization of Taiwan, and she is also known in the People's Republic of China as the only Taiwanese author with a column in major Chinese newspapers . She has written 17 books so far.

Life

Youth and education

Lungs father, Lung Huai-sheng ( 龍槐生 ), was a soldier of the Republic of China under the leadership of the Kuomintang . The family had to flee to Taiwan after the Kuomintang lost the civil war in China in 1949. She is the second child of her parents and has four brothers. Lung's first name is made up of her mother's family name , yìng ( 應 ), and the abbreviation tái ( 台 ) as a sign that she is the first child of the family born in Taiwan.

After attending National Tainan Girls' Senior High School ( 國立 台南 女子 高級中學 ), Lung attended Cheng Kung National University in Tainan for a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign Literature and Kansas State University for a Ph.D. in English and American literature.

marriage and family

In 1987 Lung moved to Germany and married a German with whom she has two sons. Her name was also Ying-tai Walther. The marriage ended in divorce. One of Lung's books, "Dear Andreas" ( 親愛 的 安德烈 , qīn'àide āndéliè ), is a collection of letters and e-mails between her and her eldest son. During her stay in Germany, Lung taught Taiwanese literature at Heidelberg University .

Career

Writer

After earning a PhD in the United States and returning to Taiwan, Lung began writing the opposition editorial column in the China Times newspaper on various conditions in Taiwan. Her essays were published in 1985 as a collection of political and social criticism under the title "Wild Fire" ( 野火 集 , yěhuǒjí ), which cemented her role as intellectuals in Taiwan. At that time, Taiwan was still ruled by the Kuomintang as a unitary party, and Lung's work caused violent reactions that went as high as death threats. These were one of the reasons Lung emigrated to Germany in 1987. Translations of her essays had also appeared in European newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and her work had appeared in newspapers in the PRC since the early 1990s. Her essays include: B. "Take your time, children", "Silver Cactus", "A Hundred Years of Thinking" and finally the open letter to Hu Jintao "Please convince me with civilization", which they wrote in 2006 as a result of the temporary closure of the news magazine "Freezing Point" ( bīngdiǎn 冰点) published. She criticized the Singaporean Minister Lee Kuan Yew and the government's restriction on personal freedom in a 1994 article entitled "Thank God I'm not a Singaporean."

In July 2005, she founded the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation ( 龍應台 文化 基金會 , lóng yīngtái wénhuà jījīnhuì ), which she used as a platform to promote literary and artistic endeavors as well as academic lectures.

Her book “Big River, Big Sea 1949” ( 大 江大海 一九 四九 , dà jiāng dà hǎi yījiǔsìjiǔ ), published in 2009, deals with the civil war in 1949 and the flight of the Kuomintang supporters to Taiwan. In the first few months after its release, it was sold over 100,000 times in Taiwan and 10,000 times in Hong Kong. In the PRC, on the other hand, discussion of their work was banned after publication.

University professor

In August 2004, Lung joined the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center as a visiting professor . Since 2008 she has held the position of Hung Leung Hao Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and as a professor at Tsing Hua State University in Taiwan. In 2009 she received the KT Li Chair Professor Award from Cheng Kung National University .

politician

In September 1999, Lung took over the post of director of the Taipei City Cultural Affairs Bureau . During her four-year tenure, she promoted the arts in Taipei through her political activities. In March 2003, Lung resigned to resume writing, noting, “Being an officer is suffocating. I could hardly breathe. "

On February 6, 2012, President Ma Ying-jeou appointed her head of the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. Lung Ying-tai has been the Republic of China's first female culture minister since the committee was reorganized as the Ministry of Culture on May 20, 2012, and held this post until she resigned on December 1, 2014. During her tenure, Lung tried to reappraise in Taiwanese society to promote history and to contribute to bridging differences between the population groups. In doing so, she emphasized the new, now consolidated Taiwanese identity and criticized the foreign policy isolation of Taiwan, which she perceived as "unjust" and which she endeavored to overcome by means of cultural policy.

Works

  • Taiwan's cultural schizophrenia . Three contributions from Lung Yingtai to the Taiwanese identity discussion. Introduction, translation and commentary by Christian Meyer. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89733-136-5 .
  • Silver quiver tree . Translated from the Chinese by Martina Hasse. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89733-218-8 .

literature

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Verna Yu: Untold Stories of China and Taiwan (English) . In: New York Times , October 5, 2009. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  2. ↑ Helen Xiaoyan Wu: Long Yingtai . In: Edward L. Davis (Ed.): Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture ( English ). Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-203-64506-5 .
  3. ↑ a b c Noah Buchan: Making rebels with a cause (English) . In: Taipei Times , March 2, 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  4. ↑ a b Adjuncts ( English ) In: Journalism and Media Studies Center . Hong Kong University. Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jmsc.hku.hk
  5. ↑ a b Academician Paul Chu and Prof. Ying-Tai Lung Honored with KT Li Chair Professor Award by NCKU ( English ) In: National Cheng Kung University . November 10, 2009. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / english.web.ncku.edu.tw
  6. ↑ a b c Elaine Chen: 向 胡錦濤 嗆 聲 的 心路 歷程 (Chinese) . In: Business Week . Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  7. ↑ Tay Tian Yan, Translated by Soong Phui Jee: Mother And Son And Life ( English ) In: Sin Chew . January 14, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
  8. ↑ a b Monique Chu: Writer appointed cultural head (English) . In: Taipei Times , September 4, 1999. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  9. ^ A b c Connie Ling: Former Taiwan Social Critic Works To Promote Taipei's Urban Culture (English) . In: Wall Street Journal , 2001. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  10. ^ Charles Snyder: Lung Ying-tai slams Taiwan's isolation (English) . In: Taipei Times , December 10, 2006. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  11. ↑ Tim Luard: China's censored media answers back (English) . In: BBC News , February 23, 2006. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  12. ^ Lung Ying-tai becomes an internet pariah in China ( English ) In: China Free Press . September 18, 2009. Archived from the original on May 7, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chinafreepress.org
  13. ↑ Wan Ping: A History of 60 Years of China, Banned on Communists' 60th Anniversary (English) . In: Epoch Times , September 22, 2009. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  14. ↑ Asia's opening to the world - conversation with Lung Ying-tai, cultural director of Taipei City . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 11, 2001. Retrieved April 25, 2019. 
  15. ↑ Editorial: Culture and politics inseparable (English) . In: Taipei Times , May 15, 2000. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  16. ^ Ko Shu-ling: Cultural Affairs Bureau takes over art museum (English) . In: Taipei Times , August 2, 2000. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  17. ^ Sandy Huang: Taipei's cultural head makes good with two books (English) . In: Taipei Times , March 20, 2003. Retrieved January 30, 2010. 
  18. ↑ Focus Taiwan , December 1, 2014
  19. ↑ Christoph von Marschall: Terror and forgiveness. Taiwan between democracy and modernity, Der Tagesspiegel, December 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lung, Ying-tai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 龍應台 (Chinese); Lóng, Yìngtái
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese essayist, cultural critic and minister of culture
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaohsiung