Xiao Hong

Xiao Hong, whose real name was Zhang Naiying, was born in 1911 in Hulan, in Heilongjiang. She left her family in 1930 to escape an arranged marriage. The writer Xiao Jun, whom she met in Harbin in 1932, became her companion; they reached Qingdao in 1934, where she finished her first novel, then Shanghai, where Lu Xun had it published in 1935. Separated from Xiao Jun, she married the writer Duanmu Hongliang in 1938 and settled with him in Hong Kong in 1940. She died there in 1942, during the Japanese occupation.

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• NovelTales of Hulan River呼蘭河傳Xiao Hong · 1940Literature