Background
Jiang Gui was born in mainland China.
姜貴
Jiang Gui was born in mainland China.
Jiang Wang attended college in Beijing.
In 1937 Jiang Wang joined the Chinese army as an officer, and served for eight years in the war against Japan in the Northern campaign (Hebei, Henan, Anhui). He wrote novels from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. His first and second novels are his best known works: The Whirlwind (written 1952, published 1959) and Rival Suns (1961). His third major novel was The Green Sea and the Blue Sky: A Nocturne (1964).
Jiang Wang lived in great poverty, and these books were mainly written for the money.
As a young man, Jiang Wang was influenced by the May Fourth Movement (1919) and joined the Kuomintang at age 18 in Guangzhou. He moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang in 1948. Both are anti-communist.
Jiang Wang married at age 29.