Eileen Chengyin Chow (Chinese: 周成蔭) is a sinologist, Chinese translator and University Teacher.[1] She works for the Duke University and for the Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan.[2]
She graduated in Literature from Harvard University and studied her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Stanford University.[3] Together with Carlos Rojas, in 2009 she translated to English Brothers, the longest novel written by the Chinese novelist Yu Hua. The novel was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and was awarded France's Prix Courrier International in 2008.[4][5]
She is director of the Cheng Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism at the Shih Hsin University.[6]
She is the granddaughter of Cheng Shewo, a journalist, publisher, and educator of the Republic of China, who founded the Shih Hsin University in Taiwan,[7] and the niece of Taiwanese sociologist Lucie Cheng.[8]