| 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]
| Year | Chinese title | Translated English title | Translator(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 |