Ding Ling

The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River

Epic of land reform and social upheaval in China during the 1940s

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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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