biography
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Ding Ling
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also spelled Ting Ling, pseudonym of Jiang Bingzhi
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| female
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| lived:
| (1904–86)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Linli Co, SEC China. A radical feminist, she studied at Beijing University, joined the League of Left-Wing Writers in 1930, and became editor of its official journal. She joined the Communist Party in 1932, but her outspoken comments on male chauvinism and discrimination led to her being disciplined by the Party leaders, until her novel, The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River (1948), about land-reform, restored her to favour. In 1958, however, she was ‘purged’, and sent to raise chickens in the Heilongjiang reclamation area. She was imprisoned (1970–5) during the Cultural Revolution, but rehabilitated by the Party in 1979. |
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