ABSTRACT
Ting Ling became one of the leading figures and a combative fighter in the ideological and factional battles. The most serious thing is that there is a feudalist problem in Chinese minds. She fells victim to Mao Tse-tung's Anti-Rightist Campaign which purged a whole generation of writers and intellectuals from the Party's ranks. Ting Ling lost the husband of her youth to the Kuomintang terror. Hu Yeh-pin was already a 'bourgeois Rightist', a 'counter-revolutionary', so he was not allowed to go into submarine work. In 1970, during the Cultural Revolution, Ting Ling and Chen Ming were separated and sent to prison where they remained, uncharged and untried, for five years. Ting Ling's own most vivid impression of her as a writer goes back to the story that won her fame in her youth, 'The Diary of Miss Sophia', which she wrote in the mid-1920s before she committed herself to the Communist movement.
