Ding Ling
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Ding Ling 🇨🇳

丁玲
["Novelist", "Feminist Writer", "Stalin Prize Laureate"]
Born Oct 12, 1904 🇨🇳 Linli (Hunan), Qing Empire
Passed Away Mar 04, 1986 Beijing, China
Lifespan 81 years old
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"Women are human beings; when will they be allowed to live without compromise, judged solely by their honest hearts?"

Archival Overview

Chinese modernist and feminist writer who shocked readers with Miss Sophia's Diary in 1928 and won the 1951 Stalin Prize for The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River.

Biographical Record

Ding Ling (born Jiang Bingzhi, 1904–1986) became a national sensation with 'Miss Sophia's Diary', an unprecedented candid exploration of female erotic desire, emotional rebellion, and tuberculosis. After the assassination of her partner Hu Yepin by the KMT, she joined the communist underground.

In Yan'an, she wrote courageous essays ('Thoughts on March 8') critiquing gender inequality within the revolutionary leadership. In 1948, she published her epic land reform novel 'The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River', surviving decades of political exile to be rehabilitated in 1979.

Key Life Milestones

1928

Publication of 'Miss Sophia's Diary'

Published the sensational diary story exploring modern female subjectivity and desire.

1951

Stalin Prize for Literature

Awarded second-class Stalin Prize for 'The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River'.

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Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
Beijing, China
GPS: 39.9079, 116.2332
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