Chung Ling

Chung Ling
鍾玲
Born1945 (age 80–81)
Chungking
EducationTunghai University (BA)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA, PhD)
OccupationsWriter, critic, educator and translator
SpouseKing Hu

Chung Ling (Chinese: 鍾玲; born 1945) is a Taiwanese writer, critic, educator and translator. Her name also appears as Zhong Ling.[1]

She was born in Chungking in Szechwan province, a native Cantonese and came to Taiwan with her family in 1950 from Japan. Zhong was educated at a girls' school in Kaohsiung, at Tunghai University and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.[2] She taught at State University of New York at Albany, at Hong Kong University at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, where she became Dean of Liberal Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University where she served as chair professor, Dean of Arts and Associate Vice President, and in University of Macau where she became the founding Master of Cheng Yu Tung College.[3] In Baptist University she founded the International Workshop and The Dream of Red Chamber Award: World's Distinguished Novel in Chinese. In 1977, she married director Hu Jinquan; the couple divorced in 1991.[1] Zhong has edited and translated collections of Chinese poetry into English, such as Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (1972) with Kenneth Rexroth.[2]

During her marriage to Hu Jinquan, she wrote a screenplay for his film, Legend of the Mountain.[1]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. p. 361. ISBN 0415159806.
  1. Ho, Clara Wing-chung Ho (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Volume 2. pp. 116–17. ISBN 0765607980.
  2. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 361. ISBN 0415159806.
  3. Lin, Julia C (2014). Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology. p. 166. ISBN 1317453204.
  4. Cheng Yu Tung College, University of Macau: http://cytc.rc.umac.mo/academics/