Zhang Yingtai

Chang Ying-Tai (Chinese: 張瀛太; pinyin: Zhāng Yíngtài; born 1965) is a Taiwanese novelist and a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). She devoted effort to pursue her career as a writer and worked diligently on literature. During her early life, she had to overcome family upheavals and financial challenges resulting from unemployment after completing graduate school degrees. These experiences and life struggles have influenced her diverse writing styles and contributed to her current achievements.

As a writer, Chang's works have received numerous awards. Her writing style is versatile, encompassing genres from romance to thrillers, historical fiction to fantasy, and humor to irony. In addition, Chang addresses a variety of concerns in her writings, including topics related to the environment, adolescence, and issues related to identity recognition.

Chang, a Chinese professor, was inspired by engineering students and chose to pursue her career at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. She builds good relationships with students, which is exemplified in an anecdote involving a student who used Classical Chinese to write a leave of absence request. She has published works such as Hunting the Oroqen (Chinese: 鄂倫春之獵), a short story about a researcher of Oroqen culture, and the short story collection Tibetan Lover (Chinese: 西藏愛人). In 2015, she received the Lennox Robinson Literary Award in Ireland.

Chang's publications encompass a wide range of genres, including novels, plays, essays, and newspaper columns. Her autobiographical campus novel, "To All the Boys We Loved Before" (Chinese: 花笠道中), explores the friendship between two girls and the love triangle involving two girls and one boy, along with the stories of other characters. Chang also created a micro-movie adaptation of this novel, which she uploaded to her YouTube channel in 2012.

Chang has actively participated in numerous national and local literary competitions. One of her novels, The Bear Whispers to Me (Chinese: 熊兒悄聲對我說), received the first Taipei International Book Fair Award and the Irish Lennox Robinson Literary Award.