Yuan Jing (1914 – 29 July 1999), 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.
Yuan Jing came from a famous intellectual family. Her sister
Yuan Xiaoyuan was China's first female diplomat. Scholar
Yuan Xingpei
Yuan Xingpei (; ; born April 18, 1936) is a Chinese scholar, educator, author, and political leader, known for his public service and publications on Chinese literature, particularly for his studies of Six Dynasties period poet Tao Yuanming. Y ...
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.
Works translated to English
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1914 births
1999 deaths
Writers from Beijing
20th-century Chinese novelists
Chinese women novelists
20th-century women writers