Ding Ling
Ding Ling , formerly romanized as Ting Ling, was the pen name of Jiang Bingzhi , also known as Bin Zhi , one of the most celebrated 20thcentury Chinese authors. She was awarded the Soviet Unions Stalin second prize for Literature in 1951.
Ding Ling was born into a gentry family in Linli, Hunan province. Her father died when Ding was three. Ding Lings mother, who raised her children alone while becoming an educator, was Dings role model, and she would later write an unfinished novel, titled Mother, which described her mothers experiences. Following her mothers example, Ding Ling became an activist at an early age. Ding Ling fled to Shanghai in 1920 in repudiation of traditional Chinese family practices by refusing to marry her cousin who had been chosen to become her husband. She rejected the commonly accepted view that parents as the source of the childs body are its owners, and she ardently asserted that she owned and controlled her own body.
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