I Myself Am a Woman

Name: I Myself Am a Woman
Author: Ding Ling

by Ding Ling

Essays and reflections on women's identity and writing in modern China

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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.

More by Ding Ling

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
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