Zong Pu

{{Short description|Chinese novelist}}

{{distinguish|Zeng Pu}}

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| notableworks = Eastern Concealment

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Feng Zhongpu (born 26 July 1928), better known by her pen name Zong Pu, is a Chinese novelist.[http://www.cbi.gov.cn/wisework/content/84021.html Zong Pu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116133956/http://www.cbi.gov.cn/wisework/content/84021.html |date=January 16, 2014 }}, retrieved October 16, 2012 She won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for her 2001 novel, Eastern Concealment.[http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/136268.htm Laureate Writers Awarded], China.org.cn, July 27, 2005, retrieved April 29, 2011.

Born in Beijing, Zong is the daughter of Feng Youlan, a prominent philosopher, and she grew up on various university campuses.{{cite book|author=Li-Hua Ying|title=Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=niMM4VuVRCYC&pg=PA292|access-date=16 October 2012|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5516-8|pages=292–3}} Zong graduated from Tsinghua University in 1951. She became a member of the China Writers Association 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. {{ISBN|978-0894107825}}.
  • 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{{Cite book|last=Zong|first=Pu|title=Departure for the South|publisher=ACA Publishing Limited|year=2018|isbn=978-1-910760-34-5|location=London|oclc=1036286009}}
  • Eastern Concealment{{Cite book|last=Zong|first=Pu|title=Eastern Concealment|publisher=ACA Publishing|year=2019|isbn=978-1-910760-35-2|location=London}}

References

{{Reflist}}

  • [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2158761 Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers] by Irene Wettenhall The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 10 (Jul., 1983), pp. 175–178]
  • [https://www.jstor.org/stable/653969 Research Note: Women Writers] by Gladys Yang in China Quarterly, No. 103 (Sep., 1985), pp. 510–517.
  • [http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S1062798703000206 The river fans out: Chinese fiction since the late 1970s] by Henry Y. H. Zhao, European Review (2003), 11: 193-208 Cambridge University Press.

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