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- Her father was exiled by the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuo-lin (張作霖) in 1925, and her mother became the sole breadwinner of the family until their reunion in Nanjing in 1930. They then traveled by foot during the onset of Second Sino-Japanese War and resettled in Sichuan.
- Her husband Lo Yu-chang (羅裕昌), whom she married in 1948, is known as the pioneer of Taiwan Railway's electrification. They met at an alumni gathering at Wuhan University.
- Of her 250,000-word memoir "The Great Flowing River (巨流河)" released in 2009, she stated:"I wrote the memory of the war into 'The Great Flowing River' because people have very strong willpower. I wrote the book not for the sake of living, but because I have something to say."
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Undated: Family portrait taken in Beiping after Chinese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1946: A return visit to her alma mater, Wuhan University in Sichuan Province.
Undated: The four female forbearers of Taiwanese literature (from left to right) – Chi Pang-yuan, Lin Hai-yin, Lin Wen-yueh, and Nancy Ing.
2008: Chi and her youngest son visit the southern tip of Taiwan to reflect on her nomadic past.
2009: Received the 5th Presidential Culture Award.
2011: Released the Japanese edition of "The Great Flowing River."
2014: Received the 34th National Cultural Award.
2015: Received the AAS-Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
2015: At a forum marking the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, the writer noted how "my heart is riddled with bullet wounds," adding that "I find it hard to accept if I hear someone speak impolitely about that period of time."