From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese-American author (1962–2019)
Da Chen speaking at the
North Carolina State University 2007 Convocation
Da Chen (1962 – December 17, 2019) was a Chinese-American author whose works included Colors of the Mountain , Brothers , and Sword . Colors of the Mountain gave rise to a version for young readers, China's Son ,
[1] and a sequel, Sounds of the River .
[2]
The Washington Post ,
San Francisco Chronicle ,
Miami Herald and
Publishers Weekly hailed Brothers as the best book of 2006.
[3]
Born in
Huangshi, Putian ,
Fujian , China,
[4]
[5] he grew up in poverty during the
Cultural Revolution .
[6] His paternal grandfather had owned land, and that wealth attracted the persecution of the
Chinese Communist Party .
[1] That persecution did not spare the rest of the family, and Chen was expelled from school and sent
down to the countryside to do hard labor.
[7] Even though the Cultural Revolution denied him much of his formal education, Chen studied for and performed well in the
college entrance exams reinstated after the Cultural Revolution.
[7] He was admitted to and graduated from
Beijing Language and Culture University . After teaching there, he emigrated to the U.S. on a scholarship for
Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1990, he received a
J.D. from
Columbia Law School ,
[8]
[9]
[10] and he then worked as an investment banker while writing.
[7] After the publications of his
memoirs , he also taught writing at
Fairfield University and
New York University .
[1]
Chen lived in
Southern California with his wife, Sunny, and two children.
[5]
[11] Chen died December 17, 2019, at his home in
Temecula, California , from lung cancer.
[1]
Bibliography
Colors of the Mountain (1999)
China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution (2001)
Sounds of the River: A Memoir (2002)
Wandering Warrior (2003)
Brothers (2006)
My Last Empress (2012)
[12]
Girl Under a Red Moon (2019)
See also
References
^
a
b
c
d Maughan, Shannon (January 2, 2020).
"Obituary: Da Chen" .
Publishers Weekly . Retrieved July 30, 2020 .
^ Charles, Eleanor (January 19, 2003).
"The Guide" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved July 30, 2020 . Da Chen to Give Talk[...]His memoir is titled, Color of the Mountain, and its sequel is Sounds of the River.
^
MFA in Creative Writing - Faculty
Archived 10 September 2011 at the
Wayback Machine - Fairfield University
^ Chen, Da (2006). A Montanha e o Rio (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira. pp. dust jacket.
ISBN
978-85-209-1992-7 .
^
a
b
"Da Chen » Biography" . dachen.org. Archived from
the original on August 2, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
^ Kirch, Claire (May 31, 2019).
"BookExpo 2019: Sisterhood Is Powerful for Children's Book Authors" .
Publishers Weekly . Retrieved July 30, 2020 .
^
a
b
c Rogers, John (December 24, 2019).
" 'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57" .
Associated Press . Retrieved July 30, 2020 .
^
"Da Chen" . albany.edu. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
^
"Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs" (PDF) . Tucson-Pima County Library. p. 1. Archived from
the original (PDF) on January 2, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2016 . Da Chen recently graduated from Columbia Law School on a full scholarship.
^
"Summer Reading Recommendations" . columbia.edu. Archived from
the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
^
The Random House "Author's Spotlight" of Da Chen . Retrieved 23 December 2006.
^
Ghosts, grief and great love in China by Da Chen , My Last Empress . Ahram.org. Reprint from Reuters. 18 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
International National People Other