Lie Sim Djwe

Lie Sim Djwe, who also published under the name Lie Sien Djioe, was a Chinese Indonesian writer, journalist, and translator active in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia from the 1910s until the 1950s.

[1] Little is known about Lie's early life, although he was probably born in Java or Sumatra around the turn of the twentieth century.

In 1915, Lie started contributing translations of Chinese novels to Sri Soematra, a Padang-based publication.

[1][2] He continued to translate and publish steadily for the next few decades; he was especially interested in historical novels (Wuxia, cloak-and-dagger) which were going out of fashion at around this time, as well as short stories with contemporary plots relating to heroic figures of the 1911 Revolution and its aftermath.

[2] Many of them were adapted from well-known historical Chinese novels, whereas others seem to be based on anonymous or now-forgotten works.