Selected Works of Ding Ling - China Literature Library · Literary Category

Author: Ding Ling
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Publish Date: 2005-07-26
Features: This is a selected collection of Ding Ling's short stories and essays. Ding Ling's writing draws from life; the people and events in her works are mostly those she has experienced or witnessed. Her novels lack artificially concocted plots or hollowly fictional characters. She extracts characters and events from life, using her own ideals, beliefs, and emotions to portray and shape them. Her essays feature natural, simple, passionate, and unrestrained language, which is concise, profound, vigorous, and expressive. She writes about various emotions in life with the most ordinary words.