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      Claire Wang-Lee
    
    (Claire Lee, Wang Ke-Nan)

Claire Wang-Lee has a B.A. degree in Literature and Foreign Languages, English, French and Spanish from National Taiwan University, a M.A. degree in Sociology from City University of New York. She also studied at Columbia University.

Writings

Books in Chinese
   «Stranger in a Promised Land» novel   1979
   «Gifts from a Faraway Daughter»  1993
   «The Woman in the Mist» 1995
   «The Tree of Promise» 1999

Books in English
   
«Stories of Faraway China» Short Fiction
1995
   
«Dimension of a Whisper» Peotry 1997

Books in English and Chinese
   
«The Song of the Wanderer » 1998
   
«How Green is My Fairway» 1998 
   
«A Brush of My Own» 1998 
   
«The Red Flower Tree» 2000
   
«First Snow» 2000
   
«Impromptu» 2001
   
«Journeys» 2002
   
«A Sudden Clearing» 2003

 

 

Translations from Chinese into English
«Ferryman and the Monkey»  Selected Stories       by Tsai Wen-fu (James  Publishing, National       Endowment of the Arts project, 1994 Taiwan)
«My Love Says…» by Randy Lee (James      Publishing, National Endowment of the Arts      project, 1996 Taiwan)
«Rainy Night Moon»  by Tsia Wen-fu (James      Publishing 1999)
«Birds in Heaven»  My Favorite Ancient      Chinese Poems (James Publishing 2000)

 

 

Translations from English into Chinese

«Summerhill» by A.S. Neill (1964 reprinted by Yuan-Liou Publishing Taiwan 1984, a long term best seller, fifty editions)

«Between Parent and Child» by Haim Ginott (Kai Ming Publishing, Taiwan 1970)

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Literary Award: National Creative Award for a Short Story in Chinese (1989)

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Art

Over thirty exhibits
Prize in watercolor, Creative Arts Guild, Irvine, CA      (1996)
Selected for Irvine Art Center's Ten Year Exhibit:       Top of the Crop (1990)
Permanent exhibit, S&E Gallery (Santa Ana, CA       across from the Bowers Museum)

Music

CD:
The Ballad of Mu Lan (National Endowment of the         Arts project 1993, Taiwan)
Wind in the Curtains
Dreams of the Red Chamber I (National         Endowment of the Arts project 1994, Taiwan)
Cassette Album: New Songs for Old Ci, Endless         Grass
Singles: Now I've Come Back,
        Love My Homeland,  The Sea,  If I Were Real

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Membership: North American Chinese Writers Association, Overseas Chinese Women Writers Association, Orange Country Chinese Artists Association, Pen USA, ASCAP USA

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