Chen Xue

Chen Xue, whose real name is Chen Yaling, was born in Taichung, Taiwan, in 1970. She is a Taiwanese novelist who graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature at National Central University in 1993. Her first short story collection, Bad Women, was published in 1995, and she is regarded as a representative writer of queer literature in Taiwan. Her notable works include The Child on the Bridge, Chen Chuntian, The Possessed, The Skyscraper, and City Without Fathers; she has received the China Times Open Book Award for one of the top ten best books. Seven of her works are included in this catalog, covering a range of subjects: social novels such as Lovers in the Maze, art tutorials such as the full-color Hyper-realistic Colored Pencil Portrait Drawing Tutorial and the Hyper-realistic Colored Pencil Drawing Tutorial for Flowers and Birds, motivational and personal-growth titles such as FBI Logical Reasoning, and biographies including Fu Sinian: Master of Scholarship, Jiang Menglin: The Calm Sage, and Hu Shi: The Free Walker. Her fiction focuses on individual emotions and marginalized social experiences with delicate prose, while her other works show her reach into art, biography, and social culture. Public information is limited, so her biographical details are not expanded upon here.