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Meiling Jin (b. 1956) is a Guyanese author, radio broadcaster, playwright, and filmmaker who currently lives in London, England. ==Biography== In 1956, Meiling Jin was born in Guyana to parents of Chinese ancestry. She has one sibling, a twin sister. Despite her parents' background, Jin did not visit China for the first time until 1981. For the first eight years of her life, Meiling Jin lived and was raised in Guyana. In June 1964 Jin's family fled the country due to the unstable politics and moved to London, England. Jin's family left Guyana two years before it achieved independence within the Commonwealth on the 26th of May in 1966. Meiling Jin's father had travelled first, and the rest of her family followed.〔Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. "Meiling Jin." Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Web.〕 It was in London that Jin found her love for literature. Meiling Jin writes of her initial distress in England that she and her sister faced as the only Chinese girls in their school.〔("Peepal Tree Press - Author Details." ) Peepal Tree Press - Author Details. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 February 2015.〕 As the only female Chinese students, Jin and her sister, were persecuted on racist grounds by boys. The most important teacher for her, who taught arithmetic, was an Asian man. Jin learned a lot from her teachers in London during this time and she mentions in numerous articles how these were some of the many people in her everyday life that she drew inspiration from for her works. Although surrounded by people, she led "a solitary and unsupervised life."〔Jin, Meiling. ''Gifts from My Grandmother''. Titlepage Title: Gifts from My Grandmother. Poems. Hiang Kee illus. London: Sheba Feminist, 1985: 10.〕 Today, Meiling Jin's topics and style of writing reflect her identity as a Chinese Caribbean author. However, it wasn't until around 2012 that she began identifying and marketing her work as a Chinese Caribbean author. Prior to that she simply referred to herself as a Caribbean author. 〔Misrahi-Barak, Judith. (2012). Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1). acgcc_jtas_12836. Retrieved from: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pn2w8cs〕 Meiling Jin draws inspiration for her works from a range of different sources including Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. Jin also incorporates her many different cultural experiences in her work. She reasons why she writes and how poetry is remembered by so many by the iconic poets of the past several centuries. She expressed, "For me, writing is healing. It is also communicating. But above all, it's powerful. When I think of the mass media and the mausoleum of dead white poets, who have such a hold on people, I feel diminished. It's if, I am hurling myself against an enormous concrete wall; the only dent being my head the mausoleum of dead white poets, who have such a hold on people, I feel diminished." Among these, Jin feels a great sense of pride in her work. She believes that her work, inspired by many female writers in China, is a way for her to get ideas across and to reach others in a personal way. She says one of the main reasons she continues to write "is the thought that someone might read it and be able to find something in it to connect with." This sense of purpose and meaning she feels for her work shows in through the finished product. The reader will find a sense of deeper meaning in her work and hopefully be able to connect in the way Jin has with the works that have inspired her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meiling Jin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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