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]
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Born | Yuan Xingzhuang (袁行莊) 1914 (1914) Beijing, China |
Died | 29 July 1999(1999-07-29) (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.
Yuan Jing joined the Communist Party of China 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) |
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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 |
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