Rong Zi

{{Short description|Chinese-born Taiwanese poet (1922–2021)}}

{{Expand Chinese|topic=bio|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Wang Rongzi

| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|05|04}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|01|09|1922|05|04}}

| occupation = Writer, poet

| native_name = 王蓉芷

| native_name_lang = zh

| pseudonym = Rong Zi
{{lang|zh|蓉子}}

| birth_place = Jiangsu, Republic of China

| death_place = Xuzhou, China

| period = 1953–2021

| genre = Modern Chinese poetry, prose, children's literature

}}

Rong Zi ({{lang-zh|蓉子}}) was the pen name of Wang Rongzi ({{lang-zh|王蓉芷}}; 4 May 1922 – 9 January 2021), a Chinese-born Taiwanese writer who is considered to be a leading modern day Taiwanese poet.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzHfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 |title=Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology |page=102 |last=Lin |first=Julia C |year=2014 |isbn=978-1317453208}}

She was born in Jiangsu province and was educated in Christian primary and secondary schools. She continued her education at an agricultural college. She first worked as a teacher and then later at a radio station; she came to Taipei in 1949. She retired from the Taipei International Telecommunications Bureau in 1976.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTBxPceWuXQC&pg=PA144 |title=Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry |page=144 |last=Yeh |first=Michelle |author2=Malmqvist, N G D |year=2013 |isbn=978-0231518413}}

She published her first book of poetry Qingniao ji (Blue Bird) in 1953. Rongzi married the poet {{ill|Luo Men|zh|羅門}} in 1955.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-TMhtk5AUYC&pg=PA278 |title=Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing |page=278 |last=Miller |first=Jane Eldridge |year=2001 |isbn=0415159806}} The couple has been called "the Brownings of Chinese Modern Poetry".{{cite web |url=http://poetry.culture.gov.tw/2009/eng/Elpoet.html |title=Taipei Poetry Festival 2009 |publisher=Government of Taiwan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151108/http://poetry.culture.gov.tw/2009/eng/Elpoet.html|archive-date=2015-04-02}} Besides several volumes of poetry, she also published essays and a volume of children's literature. She received national and international awards for her work.

Rong Zi returned to Jiangsu in 2019, to live with a relative. She died in Xuzhou on 9 January 2021.{{cite news |title=詩人蓉子於中國辭世 享耆壽99歲 |url=https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/3406650 |access-date=6 February 2021 |work=Liberty Times |date=21 January 2021 |language=zh}}{{cite news |last1=張 |first1=雅淨 |title=「永遠的青鳥」詩人蓉子逝世 長年為文學界奉獻 |url=https://www.cna.com.tw/amp/news/acul/202101100096.aspx |access-date=6 February 2021 |agency=Central News Agency |date=11 January 2021}}