Zhong Ling (author)

Zhong Ling (Chinese: 鍾玲; born 1945) is a Taiwan-Chinese writer, critic, educator and translator. Her name also appears as Chung Ling.[1]

She was born in Chongqing in Sichuan province and came to Taiwan with her family in 1950. Zhong was educated at a girl's school in Kaohsiung, at Tunghai University and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.[2] She taught at State University of New York at Albany, at Hong Kong University and at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, where she became director of the Literature Program.[3] In 1977, she married director Hu Jinquan; the couple divorced in 1991.[1] Zhong has edited and translated collections of Chinese poetry into English, such as Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (1972) with Kenneth Rexroth.[2]

During her marriage to Hu Jinquan, she wrote several screenplays for his film company, including Legend of the Mountain.[1]

Selected works[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ho, Clara Wing-chung Ho (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Volume 2. pp. 116–17. ISBN 0765607980.
  2. 1 2 3 Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 361. ISBN 0415159806.
  3. ↑ Lin, Julia C (2014). Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology. p. 166. ISBN 1317453204.


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