Ding Ling

Feminist & Writer

(1904 – 1986) · East Asia

Chinese feminist writer and Communist Party member whose fiction explored gender, politics, and social transformation in twentieth-century China. Born in Hunan in 1904, she became famous with her bold portrayals of female interiority and was awarded the Stalin Prize for Literature in 1951 before being purged during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957. She was rehabilitated after Mao's death.