{{short description|Chinese novelist}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Chung Li-ho | honorific_suffix = | image = Chung li ho 1941.jpg | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | native_name = 鍾理和 | native_name_lang = zh | pronunciation = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 6 November 1915 | birth_place = Gaoshu, Takao, Taiwan, Empire of Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1960|08|04|1915|11|06}} | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | burial_place = <!-- may be used instead of resting_place and resting_place_coordinates (displays "Burial place" as label) --> | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | monuments = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Novelist | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | agent = <!-- Discouraged in most cases, specifically when promotional, and requiring a reliable source --> | known_for = | notable_works = <!-- produces label "Notable work"; may be overridden by |credits=, which produces label "Notable credit(s)"; or by |works=, which produces label "Works"; or by |label_name=, which produces label "Label(s)" --> | style = | height = <!-- "X cm", "X m" or "X ft Y in" plus optional reference (conversions are automatic) --> | television = | title = <!-- Formal/awarded/job title. The parameter |office=may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) --> | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charge = <!-- Criminality parameters should be supported with citations from reliable sources --> | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = <!-- Use article title or common name --> | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | children = | parents = <!-- overrides mother and father parameters --> | mother = <!-- may be used (optionally with father parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | father = <!-- may be used (optionally with mother parameter) in place of parents parameter (displays "Parent(s)" as label) --> | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}

'''Chung Li-ho''' ({{lang-zh|c=鍾理和}} (pinyin Zhong Lihe), Hakka transliteration: '''Chûng Lî-fò''' or '''Tsûng Li-fô''') December 15, 1915 &ndash; August 4, 1960, was a writer from Taiwan famous mainly for fiction. He was a Liudui Hakka ({{lang-zh|六堆客家人}}), born in Gaoshu Township, Pingtung in 1915, who moved with his parents to a newly purchased fruit and coffee plantation in Meinong in around 1932. Eloping with a woman because their same-surname relationship was taboo in their community,<ref>{{cite news|author1=Han Chueng|title=Taiwan in Time: Fleeing to the old country for love|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2016/07/31/2003652137|accessdate=1 August 2016|work=Taipei Times|date=31 July 2016}}</ref> he resided in Japanese-occupied China – Shenyang and Beijing – between 1938 and 1946. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 44<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2011-04/14/content_12324586.htm|title=Ode to a writer|work=China Daily|date=April 14, 2011|author=Mu Qian}}</ref> in Meinong whilst revising his last and possibly finest work, a novella entitled "Rain" ({{lang-zh| 雨}}).

== Legacy == There is a Chung Li-ho Museum, located in Meinong, Kaohsiung is dedicated to Chung. His life has been dramatized as ''China, My Native Land'', a 1980 film directed by Li Hsing, featuring theme and other songs by Teresa Teng. Chung's eldest son, {{ill|Chung Tieh-min|zh|鍾鐵民}}, was an award-winning writer of fiction and prose. The asteroid 237187 Zhonglihe, discovered by Xiangyao Hsiao and Ye Quan-Zhi at Lulin Observatory in 2008, was named in his memory.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official {{MoMP|237187|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 October 2011 ({{small|M.P.C. 76677}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

== See also == * Chung Li-ho Museum * Literary Friends Communications

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<ref name="MPC-object">{{cite web |title = 237187 Zhonglihe (2008 UA212) |work = Minor Planet Center |url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=237187 |accessdate = 22 October 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web |title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive |work = Minor Planet Center |url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html |accessdate = 22 October 2018}}</ref>

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T. M. McClellan, “Home and the Land: the “native” fiction of Zhong Lihe”, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, 9.2 (December 2009): 154-182.

Zhong Lihe, From the Old Country: stories and sketches of China and Taiwan, Edited and translated by T. M. McClellan, Columbia University Press, 2014.

Zhong Tiemin 鍾鐵民 ed., Exploring a Literary Landscape: the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute and its Environs 探訪鍾理和紀念館暨文學地景, Gaoxiong: Chunhui, 2010. ISBN 986632711-6 (bilingual volume, 99 pp., full Chinese text with English tr. by Tommy McClellan).

Lin Sheng Xiang 林生祥, 《大地書房：山歌、文學、鍾理和》 The Land is my Study: music inspired by the literature of Zhong Lihe, trees music and art + The Zhong Lihe Trust for Culture and Education, 2010 (Music album CD; insert lyrics and notes tr. Dr Tommy McClellan).

== External links == * {{Commons category-inline}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080501170152/http://km.cca.gov.tw/zhonglihe/ Digital museum of Chung Li-ho] - a website and database built by the Taiwan government {{in lang|zh}} {{authority control}}

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