or Ting Ling orig. Jiang Wei
born 1904, Changde, Hunan province, China
died March 4, 1986, Beijing
Chinese writer.
She had written three collections, many of which contained stories centred on young, unconventional Chinese women, before publishing the proletarian-oriented Flood (1931), acclaimed as a model of Socialist Realism . She later expressed dissatisfaction with the government officials, for which she was censured and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution ; she was eventually reinstated in the party. Her later works include critical essays and fiction, some published in I Myself Am a Woman (1989).