Yuan Jing (writer)

Yuan Jing
Traditional Chinese	袁靜
Simplified Chinese	袁静
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yuán Jìng
Wade–Giles	Yüan2 Ching4

Yuan Jing
Yuan Jing
Born	Yuan Xingzhuang (袁行莊); 1914; Beijing, China
Died	29 July 1999 (aged 84–85); Tianjin, China
Occupation	novelist, screenwriter
Language	Chinese
Period	1940s–1980s
Notable work	Daughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with Kong Jue)
Spouse	Kong Jue (孔厥); Lou Ningxian (娄凝先);
Relatives	Yuan Xiaoyuan, sister; Yuan Xingpei, cousin; Chiung Yao, cousin-niece;

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

Year	Chinese title	Translated English title	Translator(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

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

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[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.