Chang Ta-chun


Chang Ta-chun, also known as Dachun Zhang, is a Taiwanese author and literary critic. He is the author of many novels, two of which, Wild Child and My Kid Sister, were published together in the U.S. as Wild Kids by Columbia University Press, translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry.
Chang began to win acclaim with his first story, "Suspended". His major breakthrough came in 1986 with his collection of short stories Apartment Building Tour Guide. He also wrote wuxia and science-fiction stories. His "spontaneous news novel" The Grand Liar includes the daily news into the plot and is his most ambitious book.
He also published the novel The Weekly Journal of Young Big Head Spring under the pen name Big Head Spring. My Kid Sister and Wild Child are the second and third installments of the Big Head Spring Trilogy.
His story "The General's Monument", included in the collection Lucky Worries About his Country, was published in French under the title La Stèle du général, translated by Mathilde Chou and Pierre Charau, and in German under the title , translated by Susanne Ettl-Hornfeck.
In the 1990s Chang Ta-chun produced and hosted two popular television shows. As a reporter, he worked for the China Times.
He has a cameo in Hou Hsiao-hsien's film A [City of Sadness|City of Sadness].

Educational background

  • B.A. and M.A. from Fu Jen [Catholic University].

    Works

  • "Suspended", 1976
  • Apartment Building Tour Guide
  • Lucky Worries About his Country
  • Happy Thieves
  • Pathological Changes
  • The Grand Liar
  • The Weekly Journal of Young Big Head Spring
  • My Kid Sister
  • No One Wrote a Letter to the Colonel
  • Wild Child
  • ''Disciples of the Liar''