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T'ien-wen Chu

Author of Notes of a Desolate Man

10+ Works 94 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Includes the names: 朱天文, Zhu Tianwen, Chu T Ienwen, T'ien-wen Chu, Chu T'Ien Wen, 朱天文著.

Works by T'ien-wen Chu

Notes of a Desolate Man (1994) 83 copies

Best Time: Records of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2006) 2 copies

Witch Introduction (Traditional Chinese Edition) (2008) 2 copies

Dan jiang ji 淡江記 1 copy

Chuan shuo 傳說 1 copy

花憶前身 1 copy

A Flower Remembers Its Previous Lives ('Hua yi qian shen', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) (1996) 1 copy

Zui lan di lan (1999) 1 copy

Fei xiang meng huan di guo du (1992) 1 copy

世紀末的華麗 1 copy

Associated Works

Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan (2003) — Contributor — 18 copies

Café Lumière [2003 film] (2003) — Writer — 9 copies

Three Times [2005 film] (2005) — Writer — 9 copies

Millennium Mambo [2001 film] (2001) — Screenwriter — 8 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Chu, T'ien-wen
Legal name: 朱天文
Birthdate: 1956-08-24
Gender: female
Nationality: Taiwan
Places of residence: Taiwan
Education: Tamkang University (English)
Occupations: novelist
screenwriter
Relationships: Chu T'ien-hsin (sister)
Chu Hsi-ning (father)
Short biography: Screenwriter for the acclaimed Taiwanese movie A City of Sadness.

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Reviews

Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T'ien-wen

I really had to push my way through this novel, narratived by a Taiwanese gay man while his lover succumbs to AIDS. I'm not sure why it was so difficult for me. It is well-wrtten, certainly, and uses a provocative structure where the past is woven into the present, but for some reason it didn't easily hold my attention after about the first third of the text.

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Around the World in 80 Books (1)

The China Project Book List (1)

Awards

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National Translation Award

Notes of a Desolate Man (Winner – 2000)

Newman Prize for Chinese Literature

世紀末的華麗 (2015)

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Statistics

Works: 10
Also by: 4
Members: 94
Popularity: #199,202
Rating: 3.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 11
Languages: 2

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