Chen Ruoxi (Chinese: 陳若曦; pinyin: Chén Ruòxī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Jio̍k-hi; also published in English under Romanised name Chen Jo-hsi; born 15 November 1938) is a Taiwanese author.
A graduate of National Taiwan University,[1] she among others helped found the literary journal Xiandai wenxue (Modern Literature).
[2] Chen Ruoxi's most famous work (particularly among English-speaking audiences) is her short story collection, The Execution of Mayor Yin, which was published in English translation in 1978.
Hong Kong: Chinese University of HK, 1986.
The Short Stories of Ruoxi Chen, Translated from the Original Chinese: A Writer at the Crossroads.
in Nancy Ing, ed., Winter Plum: Contemporary Chinese Fiction.
Also in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man dn Other Stories, 81-112. .
In George Kao, ed., Two Writers and The Cultural Revolution.
In Hsin-Sheng C. Kao, ed., Nativism Overseas: Contemporary Chinese Women Writers.
In Lucy Chen, Spirit Calling: Five Stories of Taiwan.
In Vivian Ling Hsu, ed., Born of the Same Roots.
Republished in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man and Other Stories, 81-112.
"On the Miseries of Writers in American Exile: Sanitized Versions for Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic."
In Helmut Martin, ed., Modern Chinese Writers: Self-portrayals.
HK: Chinese University Press, 1980, 133-40 and in Chen Ruoxi, The Old Man and Other Stories, 63-80.