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Chinese Women Writers
The following is a list of Chinese women writers. B *Consort Ban (c. 48 – c. 6 BCE) scholar and poet *Ban Zhao (45 – c. 116) historian * Bao Junhui (fl. late 8th c. CE) poet *Bao Linghui (fl. c. 464 CE) poet *Anni Baobei (born 1974) novelist *Bing Xin (1900–1999) fiction and children's writer C *Cai Yan (c. 178 – post 206) poet *Chang Ch'ung-ho (1914–2015) poet *Eileen Chang (1920–1995) novelist, essayist and screenwriter * Chen Jingrong (1917–1989) poet * Chen Danyan (born 1958) biographer * Chen Xuezhao (1906–1991) writer and commentator *Angelica Cheung (born 1966) fashion writer D * Dai Houying (1938–1996) novelist *Ding Ling (1904–1986) fiction writer * Duan Shuqing (c. 1510 – c. 1600) poet F *Fang Fang (born 1955) poet and novelist *Bu Feiyan (born 1981) novelist *Feng Yuanjun (1900–1974) scholar *Fu Shanxiang (1833–1864) scholar * Fu Tianlin (born 1946) poet G * Gao Yu (born 1944) journalist *Gu Taiqing (1799 – c. 1877) poet *Guan Daosheng ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consort Ban
Consort Ban (c. 48 BCE – c. 2 BCE), or Ban Jieyu (), also known as Lady Ban (Pan), was a Chinese scholar and poet during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 23 CE). ''Jieyu'' (婕妤) was a title for a third-rank palace lady, one rank below the ''Zhaoyi'' and two ranks below the Empresss. Her personal name is not known. Life Consort Ban started as a junior maid, became a concubine of Emperor Chengdi and quickly rose to prominence at court. She had two sons with him, but both died in infancy. Once she declined an invitation to ride in a palanquin because she feared to distract him from matters of state. She was also renowned as a great scholar, able to recite poems from the ''Shi Jing'' and a lot of other texts. Because neither the Empress Xu nor Consort Ban produced him an heir, the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun encouraged him to take more concubines. Around 19 BCE, however, Emperor Cheng took a liking to the dancing girl Zhao Feiyan and her sister Zhao Hede. They were bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bu Feiyan
''This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xin.'' Xin Xiaojuan ( born 11 July 1981), whose pen name Bu Feiyan (步非烟) is taken from a ''Tangchuanqi'' (short stories of the Tang dynasty) by Huangfu Mei, is a Chinese female writer known for her ''wuxia'' novels. Born in Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese pro ..., Sichuan Province, she studied at the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1999, awarded with a master's degree in ancient Chinese literature in 2006 and a Doctor's degree from the Chinese Department in 2012. In 2004, she began to serialize works on magazines, namely ''Jinguchuanqi'', ''Wuxiagushi'', and ''Wuxiaxiaoshuo''. Her major works include ''Huayinliushao'' series, ''Wulinkezhan'' series, ''Renjianliudao: Xiuluodao,'' and ''Kunlunchuanshuo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiang Biwei
Jiang Biwei (; 9 April 1899 – 12 December 1978) was influential in the lives of the painter Xu Beihong and the politician Chang Tao-fan. She published her memoirs and she is portrayed in Chinese historical dramas. Life Early life Jiang was born as Jiang Tangzhen () in Yixing, Jiangsu province on 9 April 1899. Her father Jiang Meisheng was a scholar and poet who wrote a book on the ''Zhuangzi'', and her mother Dai Qingbo was a poet. She attended the Young Girls Normal School in Changzhou. In 1911, her parents betrothed her to Zha Zihan, who came from an influential family of Haining, Zhejiang. Relationship with Xu Beihong In 1916 her family moved to avoid conflict in Yixing and so that her father could be a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. One of the student friends of her father was the ambitious and talented artist Xu Beihong. He would come to visit her family and he and Jiang became close. Xu was set to go to Japan to study and Jiang was upset that she would s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Huarui
Consort Xu (徐惠妃) ( 940 – 976) was a concubine of Later Shu's emperor Meng Chang during imperial China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. More commonly known as Madame Huarui (花蕊夫人), she was also a notable poet. When Emperor Taizu of Song Emperor Taizu of Song (21 March 927 – 14 November 976), personal name Zhao Kuangyin, courtesy name Yuanlang, was the founder and first emperor of the Song dynasty of China. He reigned from 960 until his death in 976. Formerly a distinguish ... defeated Meng Cheng, Madame Huarui was captured. Emperor Taizu had heard of her fame as a poet and asked her to compose a poem for him. Madame Huarui immediately sang (as translated by Anthony C. Yu): References Sources * * * "Huarui Furen", Mountain Songs, last accessed June 8, 2007 External links Narrating the Death of the Shu State by Huarui Furen {{DEFAULTSORT:Huarui, Madame Chinese women poets Song dynasty poets Later Shu poets 940 births 976 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang E
Huang E (, also known as Huang Xiumei (黄秀眉); 1498–1569) was a Chinese poet of the Ming dynasty. Life and work Her family's home was in Suining in Sichuan, but she often lived with her father, who was a high-ranking official of the Ming court. She was known to be intelligent and she got a good education by any standards. After returning to Sichuan when she was 21, she married Yang Shen, the son of Grand Secretary Yang Tinghe. Both spouses had great interest in literary activities. Both Yang Shen and his father opposed the Jiajing Emperor and Yang Shen was beaten and then banished to Yunnan. She then went to the Yang's family's house in Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese pro ..., where she took care of financial matters as well as the education and upbring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Lanqi
Hu Lanqi (; 1901 – 13 December 1994), also spelled Hu Lanxi, was a Chinese writer and military leader. She joined the National Revolutionary Army in 1927 and the Chinese branch of the Communist Party of Germany in 1930. She was imprisoned by Nazi Germany in 1933 and wrote an influential memoir of her experience, for which she was invited by Maxim Gorky to meet him in Moscow. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, she organized a team of women soldiers to resist the Japanese invasion, and became the first woman to be awarded the rank of Major General by the Republic of China. She supported the Communists during the Chinese Civil War, but was persecuted in Mao Zedong's political campaigns following the Communist victory in Mainland China. She survived the Cultural Revolution to see her political rehabilitation, and published a detailed memoir of her life in the 1980s. Based on her early life, the writer Mao Dun wrote the novel ''Rainbow'' (1929), whose he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganggang Hu Guidice
Ganggang Hu Guidice (, born March 23, 1984) is a Chinese author and artist living in Georgia, United States. Biography Guidice was born in Beijing, China. Her grandfather, Guogang Hu, was a dance theorist and choreographer, and her second great-grandfather, Anquan Hu, was a scholar at Hanlin Academy and the Guangxu Emperor's advisor. She graduated from the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University in 2002, and then studied at University of Science and Technology Beijing. She moved to Georgia, United States after receiving a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She works as an IT professional and columnist. Guidice published music reviews and lyrics translation in ''Hit Music'' magazine during her time at university, and completed a science fiction story, ''Control'', then stopped writing for ten years. After resuming writing in 2014, she won the Castello di Duino International poetry competition XI Edition, Youth Literary A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Ying
Hong Ying (; born September 21, 1962) is a Chinese author. Biography Hong was born in Chongqing on September 21, 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories. After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is als ..., Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she settled as a writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000. Work Best known in English for the novels ''K: the Art of Love'', ''Summer of Betrayal'', ''Peacock Cries'', and her autobiography Daughter of the River. Hong Ying’s work has been published in twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hao Jingfang
Hao Jingfang (; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese science fiction writer. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for '' Folding Beijing'', translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards. Biography Hao Jingfang was born in Tianjin, on July 27, 1984. After high school, she studied, then worked, at Tsinghua University, in the area of physics. After noticing the economic inequality of China, she studied economics in Tsinghua University, obtained a doctoral degree in 2013, and worked as a researcher at China Development Research Foundation since then. In 2002, as a high school student, she won the first prize at the 4th national high school "New Concept" writing competition (). In 2016, she won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her work '' Folding Beijing''. She became the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award. ''Vagabonds'' was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Personal life Hao is married and has a daughter. Original Works Short Stories # ''The Last Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guan Daosheng
Guan Daosheng also known as Guan Zhongji or Lady Zhongji (her courtesy name) (; 字仲姬；1262–1319) was a Chinese painter and poet who was active during the early Yuan dynasty. She is credited with being "the most famous female painter and calligrapher in the Chinese history...remembered not only as a talented woman, but also as a prominent figure in the history of bamboo painting." She is also a well-known poet in the Yuan dynasty. Life She was born into a landed family in Huzhou, which is believed to be descended from the high-ranking Wuxing official Guan Zhong. Guan grew up on her family's ancestral lands, nicknamed "The Roost of the Esteemed," and was a well-educated and highly talented child. Her father thought very highly of her, seeing her as an exceptional child as soon as she was born; hence the name Guan Daosheng, translating to "Way of Righteousness Rising as the Sun". In 1286, at age 24, Guan married Zhao Mengfu, a renowned scholar-official and artist often c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gu Taiqing
Gu Taiqing (; Pinyin: ''Gù Tàiqīng''; 1799 – c. 1877) was one of the top-ranked women poets of the Qing Dynasty. She is especially known for her ''ci'' poetry and for her sequel to the novel ''Honglou meng'' (Dream of the Red Chamber). One scholar estimates that there are as many as 1,163 surviving poems written by Gu. Life She was descended from Manchu family from the Silin-Gioro (西林覺羅 Xilin Jueluo) clan. There had been some debate as to whether or not she was of Manchu descent. It had been claimed that she was born into a banner family named Gu and took on Manchu identity after her marriage to Aisin-Gioro Yihui 奕会 (1799-1838), a Manchu prince. Other scholars claim that the confusion about her identity is an attempt to obscure her family's descent from E-er-tai, a Manchu grand secretary disgraced (and forced to commit suicide) during one of Qianlong's literary inquisitions. Her marriage to Yihui seems to have been a happy one, despite the fact that she had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gao Yu (journalist)
Gao Yu (; born 23 February 1944) is a Chinese journalist and dissident who has been repeatedly imprisoned. Early life Gao was born in Chongqing. She attended the Language and Literature Department at the Renmin University of China, where she majored in Literary Theory. Career Gao began her journalism career in 1979, as a reporter for the China News Service.Michael KudlakIPI World Press Freedom Heroes: Gao Yu ''IPI Report'', June 2000 In 1988, she became deputy chief editor of ''Economics Weekly'', edited by dissident intellectuals. She also worked as a freelance journalist for different newspapers in China and in Hong Kong. In November 1988, she published an article in Hong Kong's ''Mirror Monthly'', which was described by Beijing's Mayor Chen Xitong as a "political program for turmoil and rebellion". He branded her as a "people's enemy". She was arrested in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square protests, and released 15 months later because of health problems. Gao was arrested agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
