Ding Ling

• Ding ling


  Author of Cattle Shed
• Born

  October 12, 1904
• Died

  March 4, 1986
• Jiang Bingzhi


  (sometimes translated to Chiang Pinchin)
• Refused to marry cousin who was her chosen husband
• Joined the communist party

  1932
• Her husband, Hu Yepin, an impoverished worker,poet was executed in Jail by the kuomintang
• Miss Sophie's Diary

  (1928), a story about a young woman and her sexual feelings
• Placed under house arrest by the kuomintang in Shanghai for 3 years


  1933-1936
• Suffered harsher treatment after the defeat of Chiang Kai- she k's Nationalist government because of shifting communist politics
• Denounced as a rightist and her work was banned

  1957
• Spent 5 years in jail


  Cultural revolution
• Sent to do manual labor on a farm for 12 years. Rehabilitated in 1978.
• Influenced by Western literature
• In 1957, found consolation in reading latin American and African Literature
• Guest at the University of lowa's international writing program
• Authored more than 300 works
• Banned books like "the sun Shines over the Sanggan River" (1984) were republished
• Her works over the 50 year period. are collected in "I myself Am a woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling" (Beacon press, 1989)