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Li Yongping at the award ceremony of “National Award of Art” .
Begins to immerse himself in classical and modern Chinese literature.
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Li at the age of 11.
Short story “Son of Borneo” wins the first prize from the Borneo Literature Bureau’s 3rd literary competition.
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Picture taken at High School graduation with classmates and teachers. Li at the far right in the second row.
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Li at Yangmingshan, 1969.
“A La-tzu Woman” is translated into English by James Fu and published in Chi Pang-yuan, eds,
An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature.
First short story collection Son of Borneo published.
A La-tzu Woman published.
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Li at downtown New York, 1977.
Pursues Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Li at Graduate Studentsʼ Study Room, National Chungshan University, 1987.
Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles wins “China Times Literature Prize” and “United Daily News Literature Prize.”
Teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at Soochow University.
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Li at Soochow University, 1993.
Wins the “Literati’s Best Book Award” from the United Daily News and Central Daily News—Publication and Reading ʼs Top Ten Books (Chinese Literary Creations).
Roaming: Li Yongping Self Collection 1968-2002 published.
The End of the River: Upstream Voyage awarded the prize of “2008 Books of the Year Award” by China Times and “ Top Ten World Chinese Novels in the year of 2008” by Asia Weekly.
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Li enjoying life after retirement on a ferry boat on Tamsui River, Bali.
The End of the River: Upstream Voyage wins the “The Dream of the Red Chamber Award” for the “World Chinese Novel” Category.
The End of the River: Mountain wins the “Top Ten World Chinese Novels in the year of 2010” by Asia Weekly.
Novel The End of the River: Mountain Wins the “Golden Tripod Literary Award.”
Provided by National Dong Hwa University
Goes to China for the Award Ceremony.
Finishes The Moon River Trilogy- The Snow Falls in Clouds: Recollections of A Borneo Childhood, The End of the River and The Book of Zhu Ling
Goes to Borneo to worship his ancestors for the first time in 30 years.
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Li (on the right) returns to homeland and worships ancestors by the Rejang River, 2015.
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Li in front of the library at the annulled Nanyang University, Singapore.
The fiction is unfinished due to the author's death.
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LI YONGPING
BORN IN KUCHING, SARAWAK, MALAYSIAN BORNEO, A BRITISH COLONY AT THAT TIME
STUDIES IN CHUNG HUA MIDDLE SCHOOL NO. 2
SARAWAK ENTERS FEDERATION OF MALAYA AND BECOMES MALAYSIA
FIRST NOVEL “SON OF BORNEO” PUBLISHED
STUDIES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
SHORT STORY “A LA-TZU WOMAN” PUBLISHED
PURSUES AN M.A. DEGREE IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AT STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY IN THE UNITED STATES
SHORT STORY “HOMECOMING” WINS HONORABLE MENTION FROM THE 3RD “UNITED DAILY NEWS AWARD” FOR FICTION
SHORT STORY “SUN SHOWERS” WINS THE 4TH “UNITED DAILY NEWS AWARD” FOR FICTION
RECEIVES PH.D. TEACHES AS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE AT NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
RETRIBUTION: THE JILING CHRONICLES PUBLISHED
RELINQUISHES MALAYSIAN CITIZENSHIP AND BECOMES A TAIWANESE CITIZEN
LONG NOVEL GYRFALCON PUBLISHED
NOVEL ZHU LING’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND PUBLISHED
RETRIBUTION: THE JILING CHRONICLES FEATURED IN YAZHOU ZHOUKAN ’S 100 BEST NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TEACHES IN THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE WRITING AND ENGLISH LITERATURE AT NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY
THE SNOW FALLS IN CLOUDS: RECOLLECTIONS OF A BORNEO CHILDHOOD PUBLISHED
ENGLISH EDITION OF THE RETRIBUTION: THE JILING CHRONICLES PUBLISHED
NOVEL THE END OF THE RIVER: UPSTREAM VOYAGE PUBLISHED
BECOMES AN HONORARY PROFESSOR AT NATIONAL DONG HUA UNIVERSITY
NOVEL THE END OF THE RIVER: MOUNTAIN PUBLISHED
《吉陵鎮ものがたり》 PUBLISHED
2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “SPACE AND LITERATURE: LI YONGPING AND TAIWANESE/ MALAYSIAN CHINESE LITERATURE” ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE WRITING & ENGLISH LITERATURE, NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY
THE END OF THE RIVER: MOUNTAIN WINS THE 3RD ANNUAL “ZHONGSHAN CUP OVERSEAS CHINESE LITERARY AWARD”
NOVEL THE BOOK OF ZHU LING PUBLISHED
Wins the 19TH “NATIONAL AWARDS OF ART”
NOVEL THE BOOK OF ZHU LING WINS THE 40TH“GOLDEN TRIPOD AWARD” FOR THE BOOK PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE AT NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE
MOON RIVER TRILOGY PUBLISHED
MARVELOUS TALE OF THE SWORDWOMAN IS ISSUED SERIALLY IN WENSHUN MAGAZINE
LI YONGPING PASSED AWAY
Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Co.，2017
Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Co.，2015
The End of the River: Mountain，2010
Taipei: Rye Field Publishing Co.，2008
aipei: Rye Field Publishing Co.，2003
Taipei: Commonwealth Publishing Co., Ltd.，2002
Taipei: Unitas Publishing Co.，1998
Taipei: Unitas Publishing Co.，1992
Taipei: Hongfan Bookstore，1986
Taipei: Huaxin Publishing，1976
Kuching, Sarawak: Borneo Literature Bureau，1968
Unfinished，
The Li Yongping Archive was constructed under the aegis of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in 2017 by assistant professor Zhan Min-Xu and Professor Chiu Kuei-fen from the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies. The Archive presents a timeline of Li's artistic journey, a statement of Li’s writing, interviews, introduction to the different phases of Li’s writing, online reading, and multimedia material. The manuscript of Retribution: the Jiling Chronicles is also included in the Archive. The different versions of part of the manuscript, which are well preserved by Hongfan Bookstore, give us an idea of the writer’s careful wording of Chinese characters.
The National Chung Hsing University wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the following scholars, government agencies, and individuals to the establishment of the Archives: Mr. Li Yongping; Mr. Ye Bu-rong (the founder of Hongfan Bookstore); Professor Huang Ying-che (Aichi University, Japan); Professor Ng Kim-chew (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan); Professor Ko Chia Cian (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Professor Tee Kim Tong(National Chung Cheng University); Mr. Li Yuan-Jie; Mr. Chan Cheow-Thia; Miss Ho Isa; Ministry of Culture; National Culture and Arts Foundation; National Academy for Educational Research; National Taiwan University; Department of English at National of Dong Hwa University; Rye Field Publishing; Venerable Master Hsing Yun Public Education Trust Fund; and English translators Jennifer Shih Carson and Lin Chih-wei
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