Mr. Yang was born in Tainan in 1940 and graduated from Kaohsiung High School. Mr. Yang worked at the Kaohsiung Refinery of China Oil Corporation as a plant worker for 19 years. He is a productive writer who writes about real lives of workers and city habitants in Taiwan. He is a pioneer in Taiwanese Folk Literature.

His early writings include "Virgin Girl", "The people of the Factory", "Under the Factory Smokestack", "Circle of Girl Workers", and many others. At least three of his novels were made into movies. In his youth, Mr. Yang participated in Taiwan's democratic and labor movements and was jailed for four years in political prison. In prison, Mr. Yang wrote a long novel "The Woman Entrepreneur".

 After his release from the prison, Mr. Yang devoted his time promoting writings in his native Taiwanese language. He worked sixteen hours a day compiling a Taiwanese-Chinese bilingual dictionary continuously for six years. The dictionary was completed and published in 1992. Subsequently, he spent another six years in completing "Yang Ching Chu's Taiwanese Phonetic Readers" which includes a set of fifteen books and 43 cassette tapes as teaching materials for the Taiwanese language. Mr. Yang is currently on another major undertaking compiling "Three Hundred Taiwanese Classical Poems". Mr. Yang has an undying love of the land and people of Taiwan. His great contribution in literature writings and in the promotion of the Taiwanese language definitely win him a place in the humanitarian history in Taiwan. 

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