Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. After
studying Chinese in Taipei and theatre in Paris, she worked as a director in New York before
becoming the correspondent for United Daily News in Germany. Her book “China” won
the Taiwan Golden Melody Award for best novel and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s
Dream of Red Chamber Jury Prize. Chen has also been distinguished by the Taiwan Press
Association as “an extraordinary journalist”. She is described by literary critic Fang-Ming
Chen as Taiwan’s “window to the rest of the world”. Her novel about the history of Taiwan,
“Mazu’s Bodyguard”, has been published in Germany and has been performed on stage at
the National Theatre in Taiwan.