Education
Originally from Changhua County in western Taiwan, she attended the prestigious Taipei First Girls" High School and National Taiwan University, where she graduated with a major in psychology.
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Originally from Changhua County in western Taiwan, she attended the prestigious Taipei First Girls" High School and National Taiwan University, where she graduated with a major in psychology.
Her unapologetically lesbian sensibility has had a profound and lasting influence on queer literature in Taiwan. She worked as a counselor and later as a reporter at the weekly magazine The Journalist. Her death was a suicide.
Although there has been a great deal of speculation as to the exact cause of death, most accounts suggest that she stabbed herself with a kitchen knife.
The novel has been widely described as "a cult classic," along with her later "Last Words from Montmartre."
Qiu has been recognized as a counterculture icon, and a two-volume set of her diaries was published posthumously in 2007. Luo Yijun"s book Forgetting Sorrow (遣悲懷) was written in her memory.
In 1994 she moved to Paris, where she pursued graduate studies in clinical psychology and feminism at University of Paris VIII.