Bo Yang [real name Guo Yidong] 1920-2008

Born in Henan and graduated from National Northeastern University in Shenyang. He moved to Taiwan in the late 1940s, where he worked for the Anti-Communist Youth League and held various teaching posts. A prolific writer of essays, mostly about Taiwan's social problems, he spent ten years in prison because of a cartoon he drew in the China Daily News. He also writes fiction and books on Chinese history, but is probably most famous for his essay "The Ugly Chinaman".
Works:

  • Bo Yang xuanji (Bo Yang: Selected Works) 1962-80
  • Bo Yang suipi (Bo Yang: Occasional Essays) 1964-81
  • Bo Yang xiaoshou chuanji (Bo Yang: Collected Fiction) 1980

    Works available in English:

  • A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories (Robert Reynolds). Hong Kong: Joint
       Publishing Co., 1988.
  • Golden Triangle: Frontier and Wilderness (Clive Gulliver). Hong Kong: Joint
       Publishing Co., 1987.
  • Poems of a Period (Stephen L. Smith and Robert Reynolds). Hong Kong: Joint
       Publishing Co., 1986.
  • Secrets: A Collection of Short Stories (David Deterding). Boston: Cheng & Tsui
       Co.; Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., 1985.
  • The Alien Realm (Janice J. Yu). London: Janus Pub., 1996.
  • The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture (Don J. Cohn and Jing
       Qing). St. Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 1992.

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