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About Eve J. Chung

Taipei People (simplified Chinese: 台北人; traditional Chinese: 臺北人; Tongyong Pinyin: Táiběi rén; Wade–Giles: Taipei jen) is a short story collection by Taiwanese-American writer Pai Hsien-yung published in 1971. Comprising 14 short stories of varying lengths written by Pai in the latter half of the 1960s while teaching Chinese literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, it encapsulates the individual struggles of immigrants to Taiwan in the 1950s upon the Kuomintang's retreat starting in 1949.

The book was first published by Pai's own Ch'en Chung (Morning Bell) Publishing Co. in Taiwan in 1971, with reprints from Er Ya Publishing Co. in 1997 and 2002. Between 1976 and 1981, Pai and Patia Yasin co-translated Taipei People into English with editing by George Kao, with it being first published in 1982. Considered one of the most important works of modern Chinese literature, it ranked number 7 on Yazhou Zhoukan's Top 100 Chinese Fictions of the Twentieth Century.

Eve J. Chung writes about American literature. Their best-known work is Daughters of Shandong.

On FindMyTBR we track 2 books by Eve J. Chung, 2 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Daughters of Shandong and The Young Will Remember. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.