# Chuan Sha

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**Chuan Sha** (川沙) is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and author. He has written novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays and literary reviews.[1]

## Biography

Chuan Sha was born in [Chongqing](/source/Chongqing) in [Sichuan Province](/source/Sichuan_Province), though he has ancestry in Shandong Province. After graduating from [Sichuan University](/source/Sichuan_University), he worked as editor-in-chief for a literary magazine for some years before pursuing further studies in the United Kingdom in 1991. He has lived since 1999 with his family in Toronto.

He has been editor-in-chief for two Canada publishing houses and for a number of local newspapers. He is now the Director of the Chinese-Canadian Poets Association, Dean of Daya Institute of Cultures of Canada, Co-Chair of the Daya Literary Prize Committee, and CEO of the Daya Academic Evaluation and Judgment Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Chinese PEN Society of Canada.

## Works

### Prose

- *The Lady in the Blue-Flowered Mandarin Gown* 蓝花旗袍 (Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House, China, June 2012) ISBN 9787551103480 - novel
- *The Sunlight* (Taiwan Commercial Press, Ltd., November 2004) - novel
- *The Sojourners* (Taiwan Buffalo Publishing House, May 2004) - short stories, co-authored

### Poetry

- *Appreciation: Selected Poems of Chuan Sha* 川沙诗歌精品欣赏 (Hebei Education Press, China, June 2010) ISBN 9787543477209
- "The Wolves are Roaring", translated by Liu Hong, in *[Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond](/source/Language_for_a_New_Century:_Contemporary_Poetry_from_the_Middle_East,_Asia,_and_Beyond)*, edited by [Tina Chang](/source/Tina_Chang), Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar (W. W. Norton & Company, U.S.A., 2008)
- *Spring Night* 春夜集 (Guangxi Normal University Press, February 2006) ISBN 9787563359301
- contribution to *Variety Crossing* Vol. 8 (Korean-Canadian Literary Forum, 21 Press, 2006)
- *The Shadowy Crowds* (China's Writers Printing House, November 2001)

### Performances

- *Harmony*. Original poetry edited in 6-Act Choir. Public performances given in the P.C. Ho Theatre on November 1, 2008.[2]
- *The Skirts Are Singing*. Original Poetry edited in 4-Act Musical. Public performances in O.I.S.E. Theatre, [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto), and in York Woods Public Library Theatre, 2005.

## See also

- [List of Canadian poets](/source/List_of_Canadian_poets)

## References

1. *Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond*, edited by Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, Ravi Shankar (W. W. Norton, 2008), p. 610.

1. [Reviewed in Global Chinese Press](https://web.archive.org/web/20131003221806/http://gcpnews.com/articles/2008-11-03/C1039_29499.html), Toronto, 3 November 2008.

## External links

- [Author's blog](http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/3072824032)
- [Some of his works (in English-Chinese bilingual form)](http://www.zgnfys.com/z/shachuan.html)

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