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Renowned Chinese author Su Hsueh-lin dies at 103
1999-04-22
TAIPEI - Renowned Chinese essayist and literary expert Su Hsueh-lin, who was involved in the 1919 May Fourth student movement for a modern China, died of heart failure at a hospital in southern Taiwan on Wednesday, Kyodo News reported. She was 103. Su, who is ranked among China's most successful female writers such as Bing Xin and Ding Ling, was hospitalized with fever at the hospital of National Cheng Kung University in Tainan on Jan. 30. She failed to regain consciousness after a bout of pneumonia and following further complications died Wednesday around 3 p.m., the hospital said in a statement. Su was from Hefei in China's Anhui Province. Influenced by Hu Shih and other protagonists of the May Fourth new literature movement, whom she met during studies in Beijing in 1919, Su started to write. Beginning as an elementary school teacher, Su soon started to teach Chinese literature at a number of Chinese universities. She fled to Hong Kong from China in October 1948 before the Communist takeover and, following studies in France, settled in Taiwan, where she continued her literary and academic career. Su, who never married, retired from the Chinese department at National Cheng Kung University in 1973. Despite being wheelchair-bound, Su visited her hometown in China last May in what was her first return in half a century. Su's work comprise many volumes of essays as well as academic studies of classic Chinese literature and mythology.
Renowned Chinese author Su Hsueh-lin dies at 103 (1999-04-22)1 (11285)
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