Shen Rong

Shen Rong (Chinese: 谌容; pinyin: Shèn Róng) (born 1936) is a Chinese writer.[1] Her name also appears as Chen Rong.[2]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Shen.

She was born Shen Derong (Chinese: 谌德容)[3] in Hankou, Hubei. Because of the political unrest of the time, her family moved frequently, finally settling in Chongqing. She worked as an assistant at a publishing house and studied Russian in Beijing.[1] She then worked as a translator at a radio station but was released in 1963 due to illness. In 1973, she went to live with a peasant family in Shanxi.[4]

She began writing in the 1970s, producing the novel The Eternal Spring (Yongyuan shi chuntian). Her story At Middle Age (Ren dao zhongnian) (1980)[4] won a literary award and was made into a movie, catapulting her into the spotlight. In 1991, she published At Old Age (Rendao Iaonian).[1]

In 1983, she wrote the essay Novels strangled in the cradle: My Senseless Literary Battles, which described her difficulties as a writer living through radical shifts in her society's ideology.[2]

References
  1. Ying, Li-hua (2009). Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. pp. 166–67. ISBN 0810870819.
  2. Martin, Helmut; Kinkley, Jeffrey C; Ba, Jin (1992). Modern Chinese Writers: Self-portrayals. p. 61. ISBN 0873328175.
  3. Dillon, Michael (1998). China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. p. 46. ISBN 0700704396.
  4. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 296–97.


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