ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig19_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Tie Ning, the youngest writer (with Li Hangyu) in this book, was born in 1957 in Baoding, Hebei Province. She is from a family of intellectuals —her mother is a music instructor, and her father a professional painter. During the Cultural Revolution, when her parents were sent to a May Seventh Cadre School, Tie Ning went to live with her maternal grandmother in Beijing. Her unhappy experience there—largely because of her grandmother's suspicious and hypocritical nature—became a source for her novel The Rose Gates (Meigui men) (1989).
