Author · China
Bing Xin
Died in 1999
Xie Wanying, known by the pen name Bing Xin, was born on 5 October 1900 in Fuzhou, in Fujian, and spent her childhood by the sea, in Yantai according to the China Writers Association. A graduate of Yenching University, she obtained a master's degree in literature from Wellesley College in 1926, then taught in Beijing, notably at Yenching and Tsinghua. She stayed in Japan after the war, translated Gibran and Tagore, devoted much of her work to children's literature and died in Beijing on 28 February 1999.