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  • NAME: Ding Ling
  • OCCUPATION: Author
  • BIRTH DATE: October 12, 1904
  • DEATH DATE: March 04, 1986
  • EDUCATION: Shanghai University
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Anfu, China
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Beijing, China
  • AKA: Ting Ling
  • Originally: Jiang Wei

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Ding Ling was a Chinese writer who was acclaimed by the literary establishment but condemned by the Nationalist Party in her homeland.


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Ding Ling, pen name of Jiang Wei, was one of China's most popular 20th-century authors. In her early career, Ling initially wrote highly successful short stories centering on young, unconventional Chinese women. About 1930, with a distinct change in her artistic tendency, she became a major literary figure of the “leftist” literature who continually found herself jailed for political reasons.

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