Feng Zhongpu (born 26 July 1928), better known by her pen name Zong Pu, is a Chinese novelist. She won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for her 2001 novel, Note of Hiding in the East.

Born in Beijing, Zong is the daughter of Feng Youlan, a prominent philosopher, and she grew up on various university campuses. Zong graduated from Tsinghua University in 1951. She became a member of the China Writers Association in 1962.

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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. . 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

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Translated works (English)

Zong Pu

Departure for the South

Eastern Concealment

References

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

1928 births

Living people

20th-century Chinese short story writers

20th-century Chinese women writers

20th-century Chinese novelists

21st-century Chinese short story writers

21st-century Chinese women writers

Chinese children's writers

Chinese women children's writers

Chinese scholars

Chinese women novelists

Chinese women short story writers

Mao Dun Literature Prize laureates

Short story writers from Beijing