Tseng, Yen

Tseng Yen is a multiple award winning author from Taipei, Taiwan. She was born in the city of Kunming of China. She escaped from China while the atrocities of the Cultural Revolution were crippling the country. She was only a high school student, schools were shut down, educators were accused as the anti-communists right wings. She and her high school sweet heart, Yang Lin, then husband with four other students crossed the boarder of China to Burma, and were captured and were put in the jail as illegal immigrants. Some local Chinese people helped her and her husband got out of jail a year afte...