Chiang Kuei

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Chiang Kuei
Born	Wang Lin-du (1908-10-10)October 10, 1908 Zhucheng, Shandong, Qing Empire
Died	December 17, 1980(1980-12-17) (aged 72) Taichung, Taiwan
Language	Chinese
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	姜貴
Simplified Chinese	姜贵
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāng Guì Wade–Giles Chiang1 Kuei4
Wang Lin-du
Chinese	王林渡
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wáng Líndù

Wang Lin-du (10 October 1908 – 17 December 1980), better known by his pen name Chiang Kuei, was a Chinese novelist active in Taiwan.

Chiang Kuei was born in mainland China. As a young man, he was influenced by the May Fourth Movement (1919) and joined the Kuomintang at age 18 in Guangzhou. He married at age 29, and attended college in Beijing. In 1937 he joined the Chinese army as an officer, and served for eight years in the war against Japan in the Northern campaign (Hebei, Henan, Anhui). His mother and adopted mother were both killed by the Communists in 1945. He moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang in 1948.

Chiang Kuei wrote novels from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. His first and second novels are his best known works: The Whirlwind (written 1952, published 1959) and Rival Suns (1961). Both are anti-communist; the first portrays Chinese communism in a rural setting, and the second within a city (Wuhan).

His third major novel was The Green Sea and the Blue Sky: A Nocturne (1964). It received little comment. A number of novels followed. Chiang Kuei lived in great poverty, and these books were mainly written for the money.