Taipei First Girls' High School, National Taiwan University, University of Paris VIII
Period
1989–1995
Genre
Literary fiction, autobiography
Literary movement
LGBT literature
Notable works
Notes of a Crocodile, Last Words from Montmartre
Notable awards
China Times Literature Award, Central Daily News Short Story Prize, United Literature Association Award
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
邱妙津
Simplified Chinese
邱妙津
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Qiū Miàojīn
Wade–Giles
Chiu¹ Miao⁴-chin¹
Qiu Miaojin (Chinese: 邱妙津; 29 May 1969 – 25 June 1995), also romanized as Chiu Miao-chin, was a Taiwanese novelist. She is best known for her 1994 novel Notes of a Crocodile. Qiu's works are "frequently cited as classics",[1] and her unapologetically lesbian[2] sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on LGBT literature in Taiwan.
^Martin, Fran; Heinrich, Ari Larissa (2006-07-31). Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-8248-2963-6.
^Sang, Tze-Lan D (2003), The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China, University of Chicago Press, p. 159, ISBN 0-226-73480-3
QiuMiaojin (Chinese: 邱妙津; 29 May 1969 – 25 June 1995), also romanized as Chiu Miao-chin, was a Taiwanese novelist. She is best known for her 1994 novel...
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queer identity, alongside such works as Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys, QiuMiaojin's Notes of a Crocodile, and Chi Ta-wei's The Membranes. In 1999, Columbia...
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