Anchee Min

Anchee Min
Born	January 14, 1957 (1957-01-14) (age 55) 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 has published a memoir, Red Azalea, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as 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 age 17, where she was discovered by talent scouts.^[1] 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.

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)

References

External links

• Official website
• "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. 
• Wang, Annie (1999). "Anchee Min's Passionate World". http://www.chineseculture.net/ancheemin.html. 

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