Ding Ling

Jiang Bingzhi, known as Ding Ling, was born on 12 October 1904 in Hunan, into a family that had once been well-off; her father died in debt, and her mother became a schoolteacher. Refusing an arranged marriage, she went to Shanghai in 1920, then to Beijing. Her companion, the poet Hu Yepin, was executed by the Nationalists in 1931; abducted in 1933, she remained captive for three years, then joined Yan'an. Struck by the campaign of 1957, she spent years in the Great Northern Wilderness, then in prison, was rehabilitated in 1979 and died in Beijing on 4 March 1986.

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• NarrativeMiss Sophie's Diary莎菲女士的日記Ding Ling · 1928Literature