[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 112 (Friday, August 3, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1547]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CECILIA HSUI-YA CHANG

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                             HON. DAVID WU

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, August 2, 2001

  Mr. WU. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my condolences to the family 
and friends of Cecilia Hsui-Ya Chang, also known as Cecilia Yu, upon 
her passing.
  Cecilia Chang was born in 1919 in Tienjing of Hopei Province, near 
Bejing. She began her literary career very early. Her essays and poems 
were published in various Chinese literary magazines and newspapers 
when she was in junior high school. In her second year of high school, 
she published her first book.
  Cecilia Chang studied western languages at the Fu-Jen Catholic 
University in Beijing at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war. After 
she graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, 
she studied history as a graduate student and became a seasoned editor 
for Fu-Jen Catholic University's literature journal. Because of the 
ongoing war, she moved to Chungking and worked as the editor of the 
Literary Edition at the Social Welfare Daily News of Chungking and the 
National Catholic Newspaper (``YI-Shi Pao'') at the age of 24. After 
WWII, she returned to Beijing to teach as an instructor at Fu-Jen 
Catholic University.
  In 1949, she moved to Taiwan and taught as a professor of the English 
Department at Providence University in Taichung, Taiwan. In 1965, she 
began her tenure as professor of literature and translation at Fu-Jen 
Catholic University School of Literature. She continued to teach at Fu-
Jen for 17 years.
  Altogether, Cecilia Chang has written and published 82 books in 
Chinese, some of which have been translated into English, Korean, and 
French. Her works have been published and widely read in Taiwan, Hong 
Kong, Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Institutions and 
libraries throughout the world, including the Library of Congress and 
the Central Library of the Republic of China have collected her 
literary work. Students in China and Taiwan now read her prose and 
poetry in their textbooks and standard reading.
  Throughout her life, Cecilia Chang received many honors and awards, 
among them, the prestigious Chung Shan Literary Award in 1968; the 
Distinguished Alumni Award from Taipei Catholic University; the China 
Literary Society Award; the National Sun Yat Sen Cultural Foundation 
Literature Award; the Women's Union Long Poetry Award; and the Life-
long Contributor in Literature Award from the Chinese Literary Society 
of Taipei on May 4, 2001.
  Cecilia Chang came to the United Sates seven years ago to live in 
Southern California. She was married to the late Philip Yu and is 
survived by one son, Justin Yu of New York City, one daughter, Theresa 
Yeh of Los Angeles, and four grandchildren, Rosemary and Pauline Yu and 
Paul and David Yeh.

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