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Chinese–American writer (born )

Minfong Ho (born January 7, ) is a Chinese–American writer.

Her works frequently deal with the lives of people living in poverty in Southeast Asian countries. Despite being fiction, her stories are always set against the backdrop of real events, such as the student movement in Thailand in the s and the Cambodian refugee problem with the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime at the turn of the s and s.

Her simple yet touching language and her optimistic themes have made her writing popular among children as well as young adults.

Life

Minfong Ho was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), to Ho Rih Hwa, a Singaporean economist, diplomat and businessman, and Li Lienfung, a Hunan-born chemist and b