Yang Chian-Ho

Yang Chian-Ho (1921-2011) was a Taiwanese journalist who is considered Taiwan's first woman journalist.

Biography
Yang Chian-Ho was born in Taihoku in 1921. She was educated in Japanese as Taiwan was under Japanese rule at the time, and graduated from Taihoku Women's College. She initially worked as a journalist for the Taiwan-based Japanese newspaper Taiwan Daily News (the largest newspaper in Taiwan at the time).

She also wrote essays and short stories. In 1942 she published a short story, The Season When Flowers Bloom, which reflects on women's choices in upper-middle class society and the social expectations pushing them toward marriage. In 2023, the original Japanese text was translated into English, Chinese and Taiwanese by her daughter, Chimei Lin Chen. In 1993, Yang published her memoir, Prism of Life in Japanese and translated into Chinese in 1995.