Yang, a novelist and essayist, left her native Peiping in 1975 at the age of 37, for Hong Kong with her husband and two young children, and has been living and writing there since. Yang came to Taipei at the end of September for a four-week visit.
一九七五年的春天，楊明顯帶著兩個兒子（十一歲和七歲），離開了生活三十七年的家鄉北平，到香港投奔兩年前以越南華僑身份申請出來的丈夫。