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Hualing Nieh Engle

Hualing Nieh Engle

Hualing Nieh Engle came to the University of Iowa as a Visiting Writer in 1964 and later founded the International Writing Program together with her late husband, American poet Paul Engle. She is the author of more than twenty books including the well-known Two Women of China, Mulberry and Peach (Sang ch'ing yu t'ao hung), Thirty Years Later (San shih nien hou), Black, the Most Beautiful Color (Hei she, he she, tsui mei li ti yen she), and People in the Twentieth Century (Jen tsai erh shih shih chi). She is also the author of Literature of the Hundred Flowers.


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