{{Short description|Taiwan's first woman journalist}} {{family name hatnote|Yang|lang=Chinese}} '''Yang Chian-Ho''' ({{zh|t=楊千鶴|p=Yáng Qiānhè|poj=Iûⁿ Chhian-ho̍h}}; 1921-2011) was a Taiwanese journalist who is considered Taiwan's first woman journalist.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Han Cheung / Staff reporter|date=Aug 25, 2019|title=Taiwan in Time: Breaking newsroom barriers|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2019/08/25/2003721074|publisher=Taipei TImes|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sokolsky|first=Anne|date=2010-01-01|title=Yang Qianhe and Huang Fengzi: Two Voices of Colonial Taiwan|url=https://www.academia.edu/45665297/Yang_Qianhe_and_Huang_Fengzi_Two_Voices_of_Colonial_Taiwan|journal=Japan Studies Association Journal|volume=8|pages=239–266}}</ref>
== Biography == Yang Chian-Ho was born in Taihoku in 1921. She was educated in Japanese as Taiwan was under Japanese rule at the time, and graduated from Taihoku Women's College. She worked as a journalist for the Taiwan-based Japanese newspaper ''Taiwan Daily News'' (the largest newspaper in Taiwan at the time).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ann Heylen and Scott Sommers|title=Becoming Taiwan: From Colonialism to Democracy|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2010|pages=174}}</ref> As a journalist, she interviewed many public figures and introduced Taiwanese culture and advanced knowledge in areas such as education and health to facilitate the modernization of Taiwan society. She also wrote essays and short stories, which appeared in various publications. <ref name=”bloom”>{{Cite book| author=Yang Chian-Ho|translator= Chihmei Lin Chen|title=The Season When Flowers Bloom|publisher=Avanguard Publishing House|year=2023}}</ref>
In 1942 she published a short story, {{nihongo|''The Season When Flowers Bloom''|花咲く季節}}, depicted the life and inner-world of the young educated women. She addressed the topics of female friendships, self-concept and consciousness-raising for women, family communication and pursuit of happiness. It was widely cited by researchers in trying to understand women's choices in upper-middle class society and the social expectations pushing them toward marriage during that time in Taiwan.<ref>{{cite journal|author= Cantrill, Aoife|title=Mother of the Nation: A Short Translation History of Yang Qianhe’s ‘Flower Blooming Season’ |url= https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/6/1/article-p82_005.xml?rskey=9YzacM&result=2 |journal=International Journal of Taiwan Studies|volume=2023|date=3 Feb 2023}}</ref> In 2023, the original Japanese text was translated into English, Chinese and Taiwanese by her daughter, Chimei Lin Chen.<ref name=”bloom” /><ref>{{cite journal|author=Fu, Veronica|title=Blooming Across Border: A Multilingual Revival of Yang Chian-Ho's The Season When Flowers Bloom|url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2864&context=jeal|journal=Journal of East Asia Libraries|volume=2024|date=October 2024}}</ref>
In 1993, Yang published her memoir, {{nihongo|''Prism of Life'' |人生のプリズム}} in Japanese<ref>{{Cite web|last=Oriental Institute|first=University of Oxford|title=Translating kominka: Shaping narratives of Japanese rule in Taiwan through translation post-1975|url=https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2268587|access-date=20 May 2021}}</ref> and translated into Chinese in 1995.
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