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 | |
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| Born | Yuan Xingzhuang (袁行莊) 1914 Beijing, China |
| Died | 29 July 1999 (aged 84–85) Tianjin, China |
| Occupation | novelist, screenwriter |
| Language | Chinese |
| Period | 1940s–1980s |
| Notable work | Daughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with Kong Jue) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 袁靜 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 袁静 | ||||||||
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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.[citation needed]
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
edit| Year | Chinese title | Translated English title | Translator(s) |
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| 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 |
References
edit- ^ Zhang Shuying (张淑英) (1999-08-03). "作家袁静永别读者" [Author Yuan Jing Departs Her Readers Forever]. Guangming Daily (in Chinese).
- ^ McDougall, Bonnie S.; Louie, Kam (1997). The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press. pp. 240–1. ISBN 0-231-11084-7.
- ^ Su Lipeng (苏莉鹏) (2010-10-27). "烟台道43号袁静旧居" [43 Yantai Way, Yuan Jing's Former Residence]. Metro Express (in Chinese).
- ^ Yuan Jing; Kong Jue. Daughters and Sons. Translated by Sidney Shapiro. Foreign Languages Press.
- ^ Yuan Ching. The Story of Little Black Horse. Translated by Nieh Wen-chuan. Foreign Languages Press.