Writer’s Passion for China.docVIP

Writer?s Passion for China Yu Liqing, a writer popular with overseas Chinese readers, is now known by many people as the vice president of Evergreen Education Foundation, a USA-based organization designed to help children in China?s remote areas and help schools there set up libraries with Internet hookups. The organization also provides Chinese students from needy families with scholarships. Since the inception of the foundation in 2001 in California, USA, Yu Liqing has been its vice president. Totally devoted to the endeavors of the Evergreen, Yu Liqing has a very tight work schedule. She donates money, takes care of the accounting issues of the organization, plans activities, acts as liaison to keep information flow between Evergreen in California and Evergreen activists in China. Before Yu was fully engaged with Evergreen undertakings, she was mostly known as a writer. She is still critically respected for her literary achievements. Born on the mainland, Yu Liqing followed their parents to Taiwan when she was only three.Upon graduation from Taipei Medical College, the 22-year-old writer published her first collection of essays “Beyond One Thousand Mountains”. She continued her studies in Hawaii. Since 1972 she has lived with her husband in USA. A prolific writer, she has published more than 30 books of essays, short stories, poetry and translations, mostly by Taiwan publishers and ten by the mainland publishers. In addition, her essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines of Chinese mainland as well as those of Hong Kong and Macao. In 1997, her essay about Hong Kong was published in the overseas edition of People?s Daily and won a first prize as one of the best among essays contributed by readers in commemoration of Hong Kong returning to the sovereignty of the motherland. Strongly influenced by the classic Chinese culture, Yu grew up with a passion for Chinese painting. One of her paintings was once purchased by a collector. As a sophistic