Feng Zhongpu (born 26 July 1928), better known by her

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Zong Pu, is a Chinese novelist. She won the

Mao Dun Literature Prize Mao Dun Literature Prize () is a prize for novels, established in the will of prominent Chinese writer Mao Dun (for which he personally donated 250,000 RMB) and sponsored by the China Writers Association. Awarded every four years, it is one of t ...

for her 2001 novel, ''Note of Hiding in the East''. Born in

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, Zong is the daughter of

Feng Youlan Feng Youlan (; 4 December 1895 – 26 November 1990) was a Chinese philosopher, historian, and writer who was instrumental for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy in the modern era. The name he published under in English was 'Fung ...

, a prominent philosopher, and she grew up on various university campuses. Zong graduated from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

in 1951. She became a member of the

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in 1962.

Works

* ''Hong dou'' (Red Beans), 1957 * ''Xian shang de meng'' (Dream on the Strings), 1978 * 'Sanheng shi' (Everlasting Rock), 1980. Translated by Aimee Lykes as ''The Everlasting Rock'', 1998. . * ''shu shui'' (Who am I), 1979 * (A Head in the Marshes), 1985 * ''Nan du ji'' (Heading South), 1988 * ''Dong cang ji'' (Hiding in the East), 2001

Translated works (English)

* ''Departure for the South'' * ''Eastern Concealment''

References

Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers
by Irene Wettenhall The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 10 (Jul., 1983), pp. 175–178]
Research Note: Women Writers
by Gladys Yang in ''China Quarterly'', No. 103 (Sep., 1985), pp. 510–517.
The river fans out: Chinese fiction since the late 1970s
by Henry Y. H. Zhao, ''European Review'' (2003), 11: 193-208 Cambridge University Press. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zong, Pu 1928 births Living people 20th-century Chinese short story writers 20th-century Chinese women writers 21st-century Chinese short story writers 21st-century Chinese women writers Chinese children's writers Chinese women children's writers Chinese scholars Chinese women novelists Chinese women short story writers Mao Dun Literature Prize laureates People's Republic of China short story writers Short story writers from Beijing