Pai Hsien-yung, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pai Hsien-yung

Chinese writer

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1937

Place of Birth: Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Bái Xianyong; Wade–Giles: Pai Hsien-yung), born July 11, 1937) is a Taiwanese writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War.
Pai's father was the famous Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine).
He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War.
In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after defeat by the Communists in 1949.