Yuan Jing (writer) explained

Yuan Jing
Birth Name:Yuan Xingzhuang (袁行莊)
Birth Place:Beijing, China
Death Place:Tianjin, China
Occupation:novelist, screenwriter
Language:Chinese
Period:1940s–1980s
Notablework:Daughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with Kong Jue)

Yuan Jing (1914 – 29 July 1999[1]), born Yuan Xingzhuang, was a Chinese fiction writer, best known for her wartime novel Daughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with her then-husband Kong Jue), which was adapted into a successful 1951 film.[2]

Yuan Jing came from a famous intellectual family. Her sister Yuan Xiaoyuan was China's first female diplomat. Scholar Yuan Xingpei is her cousin. Taiwan-based novelist Chiung Yao is a cousin-niece.

Yuan Jing joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1935 and went to Yan'an during the Second Sino-Japanese War where she began to write in several genres. During the Korean War she went to Korea as a journalist. Attacked during the Cultural Revolution, she resumed her writing in the 1980s, focusing on children's literature.[3]

Works translated to English

YearChinese titleTranslated English titleTranslator(s)
1949新儿女英雄传 (co-authored with Kong Jue)Daughters and Sons[4] Sidney Shapiro
1958小黑马的故事The Story of Little Black Horse[5] Nieh Wen-chuan

Notes and References

  1. News: 作家袁静永别读者. zh. Author Yuan Jing Departs Her Readers Forever. Zhang Shuying (张淑英). Guangming Daily. 1999-08-03.
  2. Book: McDougall, Bonnie S.. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century. Louie. Kam. Columbia University Press. 0-231-11084-7. 1997. 240–1.
  3. News: 烟台道43号袁静旧居. zh. 2010-10-27. Metro Express. 43 Yantai Way, Yuan Jing's Former Residence. Su Lipeng (苏莉鹏).
  4. Book: Yuan Jing. Kong Jue. Daughters and Sons. Sidney Shapiro. Foreign Languages Press.
  5. Book: Yuan Ching. The Story of Little Black Horse. Nieh Wen-chuan. Foreign Languages Press.