Yang Chia-yun

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.
Yang Chia-yun
Traditional Chinese楊家雲
Simplified Chinese杨家云
Transcriptions

Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang), born March 1947[1] and originally from Qingdao, Shandong Province, is one of the second generation directors in Taiwan. She is also regarded as a "pioneer female film director of commercial Taiwanese film during the 1970s and 1980s".[2] In 1998, Yang Chia-yun directed the documentary A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women", which won the 35th Golden Horse Awards for "Best documentary".[3] "The fate and resistance of women are mostly the focus of Chia-yun Yang's movies",[3] among which The Unsinkable Miss Calabash and A Secret Buried For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women" are the ones that she is personally most satisfied with.[4]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". www.ctfa.org.tw. Archived from the original on 2019-01-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Chia-Yun Yang". IMDb. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  3. ^ a b 魏时煜 (2014). 東西方電影 (in Chinese) (增訂版 ed.). City University of Hong Kong Press. p. 459. ISBN 9789629372651.
  4. ^ 刘亚玉. 台湾女导演研究1957–2000 (Ph.D. thesis). Retrieved March 11, 2018.