Born: October 12, 1904, Anfu [now Linli],
Hunan province, China
Died: March 4, 1986, Beijing
Ding Ling was the assumed name of Chiang Wei-Chih, Chinese novelist, whose works include Wei Hu (1930) and The Sun Shines over the Sangkan River (1948).
She was imprisoned by the Kuomintang (Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists) in the 1930s. She was wrongly labelled as rightist and expelled from the Communist Party in 1957, imprisoned in the 1960s, and intellectually ostracized for not observing Maoist literary rules. She was rehabilitated in 1979. Her husband was writer Hu Yapin, who was executed by Chiang Kai-shek’s police in 1931.
