Qiu Miaojin was a lesbian

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 author

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 from Changhua, Taiwan

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She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School

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, and the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University

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. Later she worked at The Journalist (新新聞) as a reporter. In 1994 she went to Paris

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 to study clinical psychology

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 and feminism

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Her death was a suicide

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Her most famous book was Diary of a Crocodile (鱷魚手記), published in 1991. Luo Yijun's book Forgetting Sorrow 遣悲懷 was written in her memory.