Chu Tien-hsin

Chu Tien-hsin (Chinese: 朱天心; pinyin: Zhū Tiānxīn; born 1958) is a Taiwanese writer.
The daughter of army writer Chu Hsi-ning and translator Liu Musha, she is the younger sister of writer Chu Tien-wen and elder sister of writer of Chu Tien-yi. Chu began writing in high school and her early short stories and essays were published in 1977 as Fangzhou shang de rizi (Days on the ark) and Jirang ge (Songs of rustic pleasures). She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School and then studied history at National Taiwan University. In 1984, she married writer and editor Xie Caijun. Their daughter was born in 1986. She wrote a number of articles for the weekly China Times.
Chu was influenced in her development as a writer by her father and also by writer and editor Hu Lancheng. In her work, she explores the challenges of reestablishing and maintaining cultural identity in a modern world.
Chu is a member of the advocacy group The Alliance for Ethnic Equality which opposes the exploitation of ethnic differences for political gain. In 2012, she was part of a group lobbying for the creation of an independent agency responsible for animal protection.

Selected works

• Wo jide ... (I remember), stories (1989)
• Xiang wo juancun de xiongdimen (Thinking of my brothers in military compound), stories (1992)
• Xiaoshuojia de zhengzhi zhouji (Political diaries of a fiction writer), collected essays (1994)
• Gudu (Ancient capital), stories (1997)

• Chen, Lingchei Letty (2006). Writing Chinese: Reshaping Chinese Cultural Identity. pp. 64–76. ISBN 1403982988.