Anchee Min

Anchee Min
Born	January 14, 1957 (1957-01-14) Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Citizenship	American

Anchee Min (閔安琪; Mín Ānqí; born January 14, 1957) is a Chinese-American painter, photographer, musician, and author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min's memoir, Red Azalea, and her subsequent novels are either semiautobiographical or reflect a particular time in Chinese history with an emphasis on strong female characters, most notably Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.

Life

Born in Shanghai on January 14, 1957, Min was sent to a labor camp at seventeen where she was discovered by talent scouts. She worked as an actress at the Shanghai Film Studio and went to the United States in 1984 with the help of actress Joan Chen. She is married to author Lloyd Lofthouse.

In May 2011, she was interviewed by Jim Peck on Milwaukee Public Television's interview show I Remember.

Bibliography

Memoir

Red Azalea (1994; a New York Times Notable Book)

Fiction

• Katherine (1995)
• Becoming Madame Mao (2001)
• Wild Ginger (2002)
• Empress Orchid (2004)
• The Last Empress (2007)
• Pearl of China (2010)

External links

• "Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2010 interview audio file". http://accents.international.uiowa.edu/global-gigs/anchee-min/. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
• "Powell's Books Author Interviews: Anchee Min". http://www.powells.com/authors/min.html. Retrieved 2008-03-29. 
• "BooksReporter.com: Anchee Min". 2000-09-29. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-min-anchee.asp. 
• Wang, Annie (1999). "Anchee Min's Passionate World". http://www.chineseculture.net/ancheemin.html. 
• http://ancheemin.com