Remembrance: Molding Chinese History into Fiction

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My novels, to date, are all based in Chinese history, and so my talk will revolve around the following:

  1. My own background and why I feel writing Chinese (or Chinese-American) historical novels is important
  2. My first novel, Sons of Heaven
  3. My second novel, Deep in the Mountains
  4. My third novel, Little Flower
  5. Research and creative process for each book: similarities and differences between each

Author Bio

Terrence Cheng is the author of Sons of Heaven, which is set during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; and Deep in the Mountains (forthcoming Spring 2007), an historical young adult novel based on the life of Zhu Qizhan. Cheng earned his MFA in Fiction at the University of Miami, FL, where he was a James Michener Fellow. In 2005 he received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete his third novel, Little Flower, which is based on war crimes committed by the Japanese military in China before and during WWII. Cheng is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lehman College, part of the City University of New York. He has lived most of his life in New York. For more information visit www.tcheng.net