Chu Tʽien-wen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chu.
Chu Tʽien-wen
Chu at the 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition
Chu at the 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition
Born (1956-08-24) 24 August 1956 (age 68)
Taipei, Taiwan
LanguageChinese
EducationTamkang University (BA)
Relatives
Chinese name
Chinese朱天文
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhū Tiānwén
Wade–GilesChu1 T'ien1-wen2

Chu Tʻien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; born 24 August 1956) is a Taiwanese fiction writer. Chu is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for most Hou Hsiao-hsien films. She is the recipient of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

Her father Chu Hsi-ning and younger sister Chu Tʻien-hsin are also famous writers.

Biography

Chu Tʻien-wen was born in Taipei, Taiwan.[citation needed] She was born to one of the most prestigious literary family in contemporary Taiwan. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tʻien-hsin. Her teacher was Hu Lancheng, and she was also greatly influenced by Eileen Chang.[1] Chu weaves an eclectic tapestry of culture through the personal history and musings of her mentor.[2] Chu published her first novel in 1972.[3] In 1983, Chu adapted the award-winning novel "Growing Up" into a screenplay for the screen. Besides winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Award of the 20th Golden Horse Award,[4] Chu also co-produced the soundtrack.[citation needed]

While attending Tamkang University, Chu served as the chief editor of The Threes journal (Sansan jikan 三三集刊), The Threes magazine (Sansan zazhi 三三雜誌), and co-founded The Threes Bookstore Publisher (Sansan shufang 三三書坊) with her sister and friends.[5][6] In 1985, she wrote the screenplay "The Time to Live and the Time to Die" and won the best original screenplay award in the 22nd Taiwan Golden Horse Award.[7] Some of her notable novels are Fin-de-Siècle Splendour (世紀末的華麗, 1990), Notes of a Desolate Man (荒人手記, 1994), and Witch's Brew (巫言, 2008). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millennium Mambo, City of Sadness 悲情城市 (1989), and many more.

Chu was named the winner of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature for Fin-de-Siècle Splendour, making her the first female writer to win the award.[8] When Chu came to the University of Oklahoma to receive the Newman Prize in early March 2015, she participated in the Chinese Cinema Salon funded by the Presidential Dream Course on Chinese Cinema.[9] Chu has been awarded Best Screenplay at the international Venice Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival.[10]

Works translated to English

Year Chinese title Translated English title Translator(s)
1986 炎夏之都 "The Long Hot Summer"[11] Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
"A City of Hot Summer"[12] Michelle Yeh
1988 柴師父 "Master Chai"[13]
1989 肉身菩薩 "Boddhisattva Incarnate"[14] Fran Martin
1990 世紀末的華麗 "Fin de Siècle Splendour"[15] Eva Hung
1994 荒人手記 Notes of a Desolate Man[16] Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
2006 巫言 "Witch's Brew"[17]
2015 我們有義務成為另一些人 "We All Change into Somebody Else"[18] Ping Zhu

Filmography

Films

Year English title Chinese title Director Notes
1983 Growing Up 小畢的故事 Chen Kunhou co-wrote with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
The Boys from Fengkuei 風櫃來的人 Hou Hsiao-hsien
1984 A Summer at Grandpa's 冬冬的假期
Out of the Blue 小爸爸的天空 Chen Kunhou co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
1985 My Favorite Season 最想念的季節 co-wrote with Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
The Matrimony 結婚 co-wrote with Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
Taipei Story 青梅竹馬 Edward Yang co-wrote with Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Time to Live and the Time to Die 童年往事 Hou Hsiao-hsien
1986 Dust in the Wind 戀戀風塵 co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
Drifters 流浪少年路 Chen Kunhou co-wrote with Ding Yah-ming and Hsu Shu-chen
1987 Daughter of the Nile 尼羅河女兒 Hou Hsiao-hsien
1989 A City of Sadness 悲情城市 co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
1993 The Puppetmaster 戲夢人生 co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
1995 Good Men, Good Women 好男好女
1996 Goodbye South, Goodbye 南國再見，南國 co-wrote with Jack Kao and Lim Giong
1998 Flowers of Shanghai 海上花 based on The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
2001 Millennium Mambo 千禧曼波
2003 Café Lumière 咖啡時光
2005 Three Times 最好的時光
2015 The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘 historical film, co-wrote with niece Hsieh Hai-meng and Ah Cheng
2020 Unfulfilled Dreams 願未央 Chu T'ien-wen Documentary

TV series (incomplete)

  • 1982 Guarding Sunlight, Guarding You (守著陽光守著你)?
  • 1989 Sweet Baby (甜蜜寶貝)

Film awards

Year # Award Category Film Result
1983 20th Golden Horse Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Growing Up Won
1984 21st A Summer at Grandpa's Nominated
1985 22nd Best Original Screenplay The Time to Live and the Time to Die Won
1989 26th A City of Sadness Nominated
1995 32nd Best Adapted Screenplay Good Men, Good Women Won
2005 42nd Best Original Screenplay Three Times Nominated
2015 52nd Best Adapted Screenplay The Assassin Nominated
2016 13th International Cinephile Society Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated

References

  1. ^ 陈, 秀雯 (2011). "论朱天文作品中的成长叙事" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2021-12-07.拉曼大学中文系.
  2. ^ T'ien-wen, Chu; Zhu, Ping (2016-09-01). "On Myths and Riddles". Chinese Literature Today. 5 (2): 63–69. doi:10.1080/21514399.2016.11834097. ISSN 2151-4399. S2CID 165984959.
  3. ^ "朱天文: 我们一路都在扔读者--访谈--中国作家网". www.chinawriter.com.cn. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  4. ^ "台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival". www.goldenhorse.org.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  5. ^ 王, 艺 (2011). 朱天文文学道路探析. 兰州大学文学院: 文教资料. p. 19-20.
  6. ^ "Chu T'ien-wen: Winner of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature". Archived from the original on 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2021-12-07.clt.oucreate.com.
  7. ^ "台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival". www.goldenhorse.org.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  8. ^ "Chu T'ien-Wen Wins 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature". Archived from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2014-09-19.
  9. ^ T'ien-wen, Chu; Zhu, Ping (September 2016). "We All Change into Somebody Else: In Acceptance of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature". Chinese Literature Today. 5 (2): 42–43. doi:10.1080/21514399.2016.11834093. ISSN 2151-4399. S2CID 149338993.
  10. ^ Berry, Michael (September 2016). "Three Times: Chu T'ien-wen on Writing, Screenwriting, and New Taiwan Cinema". Chinese Literature Today. 5 (2): 46–57. doi:10.1080/21514399.2016.11834095. ISSN 2151-4399. S2CID 194775878.
  11. ^ Renditions, 1991.
  12. ^ The Chinese PEN, Summer 1988.
  13. ^ Running Wild: New Chinese Writers. Columbia University Press. 1994.
  14. ^ Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan. University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8248-2652-9.
  15. ^ The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature. Columbia University Press. 1995. ISBN 0-231-08002-6.
  16. ^ Notes of a Desolate Man. Columbia University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-231-11608-4.
  17. ^ Asymptote, January 2012.
  18. ^ Chinese Literature Today, 2016.


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