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Meiling Jin is a Guyanese-born author, radio broadcaster, playwright, and filmmaker. She was born in 1956 in Guyana and moved to the United States in 1979. She is best known for her novel, The River's Song, which was published in 1998. Jin has written several books, including The River's Song, The Last English Plantation, and The House of Memory. She has also written plays, including The Last English Plantation and The House of Memory. She has also written and directed several short films, including The River's Song and The House of Memory. Jin has been a radio broadcaster for over 20 years, hosting her own show, "The Meiling Jin Show," on WBAI in New York City. She has also been a guest on numerous radio and television programs, including NPR's All Things Considered and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Jin is currently living in New York City and is working on her next book. She is also a member of the Guyanese American Writers Association.

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2012

Today, Meiling Jin's topics and style of writing reflect her identity as a Chinese Caribbean author. However, it wasn't until around 2012 that she began identifying and marketing her work as a Chinese Caribbean author. Prior to that she simply referred to herself as a Caribbean author. Meiling Jin draws inspiration for her works from a range of different sources including Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. Jin also incorporates her many different cultural experiences in her work. She reasons why she writes and how poetry is remembered by so many by the iconic poets of the past several centuries. She expressed, "For me, writing is healing. It is also communicating. But above all, it's powerful. When I think of the mass media and the mausoleum of dead white poets, who have such a hold on people, I feel diminished. It's if, I am hurling myself against an enormous concrete wall; the only dent being my head the mausoleum of dead white poets, who have such a hold on people, I feel diminished."

1996

Song of the Boatwoman, published in November 1996, is a collection of short stories. These short stories have a variety of scenes including: "London, China, California, Malaysia [and] the Caribbean". Jin draws upon her Guyanese-Chinese roots as inspiration for a number of the poems in this compilation. She uses various unique writing techniques and styles to thoroughly entertain her readers. Furthermore, each of these stories, whether regarding gender, sexual orientation, or race, manifest into the overall representation of the Boatwoman.

1966

In 1956, Meiling Jin was born in Guyana to parents of Chinese ancestry. She has one sibling, a twin sister. Despite her parents' background, Jin did not visit China for the first time until 1981. For the first eight years of her life, Meiling Jin lived and was raised in Guyana. In June 1964 Jin's family fled the country due to the unstable politics and moved to London, England. Jin's family left Guyana two years before it achieved independence within the Commonwealth on 26 May 1966. Meiling Jin's father had travelled first, and the rest of her family followed. It was in London that Jin found her love for literature.

1956

Meiling Jin (born 1956) is a Guyanese author, radio broadcaster, playwright, and filmmaker who currently lives in London, England.