About Helena Kuo
Lived 1911 – 1999 (aged 87–88). Helena Kuo was a Chinese journalist, writer and translator.
Kuo Ching-ch'iu (; 1911
Kuo worked as a translator for the Voice of America and the United States Information Agency. She was an adviser for the 1943 movie China. She also translated two novels by Lao She: The Quest for Love of Lao Lee (1948) and The Drum Singer (1952).
She died in hospital in Taipei at the age of 86; she was in Taiwan to attend a reception for her husband at the Taiwan Museum of Art.
Selected works
Source:
Peach Path, collected essays (1940) I've Come a Long Way, autobiography (1942) Westward to Chungking, novel (1944) Giants of China, biographical sketches (1944) Doug Kingman's Watercolours, non-fiction (1952)
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Who was Helena Kuo?
Chinese-American writer and translator
When was Helena Kuo born?
Helena Kuo was born in 1911 in Macau.
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Helena Kuo died on 25 April 1999 in Taipei.
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Helena Kuo was a journalist, writer and translator.
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Helena Kuo was Chinese.
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