ABSTRACT
In 1930, Ding Ling joined the League of Left-Wing Writers, and in 1932, the Communist party. After 1933, she was in the custody of the KMT, until she escaped in 1936 to join Communist literary circles in Yan'an. She changed from writing sketches to a kind of reportage style. After further halting attempts to create a Chinese socialist realism, she wrote Taiyang zhao zai Sang gan He shang (The sun shines over the Sanggan River, 1949), a novel about the land reform in 1946 and 1947. It won a Stalin Prize.
