Yuan Jing
BornYuan Xingzhuang (袁行莊)
1914 (1914)
Beijing, China
Died29 July 1999(1999-07-29) (aged 84–85)
Tianjin, China
Occupationnovelist, screenwriter
LanguageChinese
Period1940s–1980s
Notable workDaughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with Kong Jue)
Spouse
  • Kong Jue (孔厥)
  • Lou Ningxian (娄凝先)
Relatives
Yuan Jing
Traditional Chinese袁靜
Simplified Chinese袁静

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 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]

Works translated to English

YearChinese titleTranslated English titleTranslator(s)
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

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ Yuan Jing; Kong Jue. Daughters and Sons. Translated by Sidney Shapiro. Foreign Languages Press.
  5. ↑ Yuan Ching. The Story of Little Black Horse. Translated by Nieh Wen-chuan. Foreign Languages Press.
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