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This slim volume will be an interview with Taiwan's most famous activist and author, Dr. Lung Yingtai. It's a conversation between Yingtai and Duke professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow about politics, activism, and writing, in which they discuss: personal history as national history, the public role of a writer in a places like Taiwan and China, and the writerly life as a woman, activist, and mother. Yingtai's most famous book, Big River, Big Sea--which will be excerpted and translated in this collection of interviews--has been banned in mainland China but is widely read among Chinese speakers and its diaspora. She describes it as ""a novel in which everything is true.""

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Lung Yingtai is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. Her poignant and critical essays contributed to the democratization of Taiwan and as the only Taiwanese writer with a column in major mainland Chinese newspapers, she is an influential writer in Mainland China. Lung Yingtai has held two positions within Taiwan's government as Taipei's first Cultural Bureau Chief (1999-2003)[5] and as Taiwan's first Culture Minister (2012-2014). Eileen is associate professor at Duke University's Asian and Middle Eastern Studies department, co-founder of FHI Story Lab, and editor of LARB's China Channel. She grew up in Taipei and has been translating her whole life. Eileen is associate professor at Duke University's Asian and Middle Eastern Studies department, co-founder of FHI Story Lab, and editor of LARB's China Channel. She grew up in Taipei and has been translating her whole life.

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