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Yeeshan Yang
Yeeshan Yang comes from a migratory family background. She spent her childhood
years in Maoist China, where she saw her Indonesian-Chinese father politically
persecuted as a spy; grew up in Hong Kong; studied Japanese in Tokyo;
experienced migrant life again in Australia; then returned to Hong Kong. She has
worked in journalism, filmmaking and publishing while conducting anthropological
research.
Yeeshan penned the
screenplay for the movie adaptation of Whispers and Moans, which opened in
Hong Kong cinemas in May 2007, and True Women For Sale,
a further adaptation of the book for which Prudence Liew won the Golden Horse
Best Actress Award in December 2008.
Books by Yeeshan Yang
Whispers and Moans
Pelma's Tears
Abandoned in Manchuria |
