Lung Ying-tai
| Lung Ying-tai | |
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| 龍應台 | |
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| 1st Minister of Culture of the Republic of China | |
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In office 20 May 2012 – 7 December 2014 |
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| Deputy |
George Hsu, Chang Yun-cheng, Lin Chin-tien George Hsu, Hung Meng-chi, Lee Ying-ping |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Hung Meng-chi |
| Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of China | |
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In office 6 February 2012 – 19 May 2012 |
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| Preceded by |
Ovid Tzeng Lin Chin-tian (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 February 1952 (age 64) Daliao, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Children | Two sons (including Andreas Walther) |
| Alma mater |
Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University Kansas State University |
Lung Ying-tai (traditional Chinese: 龍應台; simplified Chinese: 龙应台; pinyin: Lóng Yìngtái) (born February 13, 1952 in Kaohsiung) is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili' (胡美麗). Lung's poignant and critical essays contributed to the democratization of Taiwan and as the only Taiwanese writer with a column in major mainland Chinese newspapers, she is an influential writer in Mainland China. She has written 17 books.
Lung Ying-tai has held two positions within Taiwan’s government as Taipei’s first Cultural Bureau Chief (1999-2003) and as Taiwan’s first Culture Minister (2012-2014).
Lung's father, Lung Huai-sheng (龍槐生), a Kuomintang military police officer, moved his family to Taiwan after the KMT lost the civil war in China in 1949. She is her parents' second child and has four brothers. The first character of Lung's given name, ying (應), is her mother's family name (Yin Mei-jun), and the second character, tai (台), is to signify that she is the first child in the family to be born in Taiwan.
After attending National Tainan Girls' Senior High School, Lung received her bachelor's degree in Foreign Language and Literature from the National Cheng Kung University and a Ph.D. from Kansas State University in English and American Literature.
After returning to Taiwan, she began writing an op-ed column in China Times on the various conditions in Taiwan. Her essays were published together in 1985 in a book of social-political criticism, "The Wild Fire," (Ye Huo Ji ) when Taiwan was still under the Kuomintang’s one-party rule, which cemented her role as an intellectual in Taiwan. She moved to Germany in 1987, partly due to the response to her work that included death threats. Her translated essays had appeared in European newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her work has appeared in mainland Chinese newspapers since the early 1990s. Her essays include "Children Take Your Time," "Silver Cactus", "Rise of thinking," and in 2006, "Please Use Civilization to Convince Me", an open letter to Hu Jintao following the temporary closure of Freezing Point. She criticised Singaporean minister Lee Kuan Yew and the government's restrictions on personal freedom in 1994 in an article titled, "Thank God I Am Not Singaporean".
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