Taipei Chinese Centre group photograph in Tokyo



Taipei Chinese Centre group photograph in Tokyo
Photograph of PEN delegates at the 47th PEN International Congress in Tokyo in 1984. From left to right on the front row are: Lin Wen-yueh 林文月; Francisco Sionil José, founder and president of the Phillipenes Centre (1957-); Peter Elstob, international secretary of PEN International (1974-81); Josephine Pullein-Thompson, president of PEN International (1994-97); Nancy Chang Ing 殷張蘭熙, president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (1985-91) and vice-president of PEN International (1975-2017); Ting Chen-wan; and Diane Ying. A delegation of fifteen members from the Taipei Chinese Centre attended this Congress, which was held on 14-18 May 1984 and was titled Literature In The Nuclear Age. Why Do We Write?; Literary Relations Between East and West – Japanese Literature In The World Today; Writers and Human Rights.