Nyonya The Tiang Ek

Nyonya The Tiang Ek, whose real name was Lie Djien Nio, was a Chinese Indonesian journalist, writer, and translator who was active in the late colonial period in the Dutch East Indies. She was part of a small cohort of Chinese Indonesian women novelists and short story writers publishing during that time which included Khoe Trima Nio, Tan Lam Nio, and Yang Lioe, and translators such as Lie Loan Lian Nio. She was known for translating detective and cloak-and-dagger stories and was interested in women's liberation and increased freedom for Chinese Indonesian women in particular. She was one of only a handful of documented Chinese Indonesian women translators in the Indies.

Biography Lie Djien Nio was born in Cianjur, West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) at around the turn of the twentieth century.

She became editor of a monthly magazine named which was published by an association named . Her original 1925 novel ("To be haunted by one's passions") described two Chinese sisters who had received Dutch educations in the Indies and become writers and whose lives had taken different paths. , (1925, serialized in Penghidoepan)) (1933, published as Mrs. Leader)