1. Yang Mu was a pen name of Wang Ching-hsien, a Taiwanese poet, essayist, critic, translator, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, and Founding Dean at NDHU College of Humanities and Social Sciences and HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Yang Mu is considered one of the most accomplished poets writing in Chinese in the 20th and 21st century, known for his lyricism and linguistic ingenuity, modernising the Chinese diction and syntax while reviving a sublime style out of the idiom and imagery of Chinese and Western poetic traditions.
Yang Mu was praised by Swedish Academy member Goran Malmqvist, who translated his work into Swedish, as the closest Taiwanese poet to the Nobel Prize.
Yang Mu was the first Taiwanese winner of Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and Cikada Prize.
Yang Mu's studying in America, obviously, contributed to the changes of his poetry style.
Yang Mu later became Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington and Chair Professor of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University.
Yang Mu was admitted to Cathay General Hospital in Taipei in March 2020, where he lapsed into a coma.
Later, he was known to his readers as Yang Mu and published 12 other poetry collections such as Manuscripts Sealed in a Bottle, Songs of the Little Dipper, A Game of Taboos, The Coast with Seven Turns, Someone A Complete Fable, Ventures, Diaspsis Patelliformi, Songs long and short and so forth.
Yang Mu's works have been translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Swedish Dutch, etc.
Yang Mu was the first poet and the first Taiwanese winning Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in the US and the first Taiwanese awarded Cikada Prize in Sweden.