Ding Ling

Miss Sophie's Diary

Diary form novella of a young woman's forbidden desires and social restrictions

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Ding Ling
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.

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