Zong Pu Explained

Zong Pu

Native Name:

宗璞

Native Name Lang:

Birth Name:

Feng Zhongpu (Chinese: 冯钟璞)

Birth Date:

26 July 1928

Birth Place:

Beijing, China

Occupation:

Novelist

Language:

Chinese

Alma Mater:

Nankai University
Tsinghua University

Period:

1948–present

Genre:

Novel, prose

Notableworks:

Eastern Concealment

Parents:

Feng Youlan (father)

Module:

Child:	yes
P:	Zōng Pú

Feng Zhongpu (born 26 July 1928), better known by her pen name Zong Pu, is a Chinese novelist.^[1] She won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for her 2001 novel, Eastern Concealment.^[2]

Born in Beijing, Zong is the daughter of Feng Youlan, a prominent philosopher, and she grew up on various university campuses.^[3] Zong graduated from Tsinghua University in 1951. She became a member of the China Writers Association in 1962.

Works

Hong dou (Red Beans), 1957
Xian shang de meng (Dream on the Strings), 1978
'Sanheng shi' (Everlasting Rock), 1980. Translated by Aimee Lykes as The Everlasting Rock, 1998. .
shu shui (Who am I), 1979
(A Head in the Marshes), 1985
Nan du ji (Heading South), 1988
Dong cang ji (Hiding in the East), 2001

Translated works (English)

Departure for the South^[4]
Eastern Concealment^[5]

References

Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers by Irene Wettenhall The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 10 (Jul., 1983), pp. 175–178]
Research Note: Women Writers by Gladys Yang in China Quarterly, No. 103 (Sep., 1985), pp. 510–517.
The river fans out: Chinese fiction since the late 1970s by Henry Y. H. Zhao, European Review (2003), 11: 193-208 Cambridge University Press.

Notes and References

http://www.cbi.gov.cn/wisework/content/84021.html Zong Pu
http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/136268.htm Laureate Writers Awarded
Book: Li-Hua Ying. Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. 16 October 2012. 2010. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-5516-8. 292–3.
Book: Zong, Pu. Departure for the South. ACA Publishing Limited. 2018. 978-1-910760-34-5. London. 1036286009.
Book: Zong, Pu. Eastern Concealment. ACA Publishing. 2019. 978-1-910760-35-2. London.