Noted writer Chi Pang-yuan dies in Taiwan

Chi Pang-yuan, the noted scholar and writer, died Friday (March 29) in Taiwan at the age of 100, according to local media reports.

Chi was born in 1924 in northeast China, left her hometown in 1930 shortly before the Japanese invasion, and drifted across the country due to the ongoing war. In 1947, she moved to Taiwan.

She was well known across the Taiwan Strait for her masterpiece autobiography "The Great Flowing River."

Published in 2009, the book spans 250,000 characters and tells the tale of her youth on the Chinese mainland and her adulthood in Taiwan. It provides a firsthand and intimate look into the history of contemporary China, especially the tumultuous period of the Japanese invasion.