Ding Ling
Chinese feminist novelist and Communist Party member whose career spanned triumph and persecution. Miss Sophie's Diary was a scandalous feminist masterpiece; her later fate under Mao exemplified the tragedy of revolutionary intellectuals.
Works
- Miss Sophie's DiaryDiary form novella of a young woman's forbidden desires and social restrictions
- The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan RiverEpic of land reform and social upheaval in China during the 1940s
- When I Was in Xia VillageNovella about a woman's trauma and recovery following wartime sexual violence
- Mother
- I Myself Am a WomanEssays and reflections on women's identity and writing in modern China