Life

She was born in 1914 in Ningbo

Ningbo

Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...

, Zhejiang Province.

Su Qing was admitted to the National Centre University (which is called Nanjing University

Nanjing University

Nanjing University , or Nanking University, is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning in China...

 nowadays) in 1933 at the age of 19. Her parents however, did not think it was proper business for a girl to accept such an education. As a result, she stopped schooling and married somebody her parents selected for her. After her marriage, she moved to Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 with her husband. In the 1940s, she and her husband divorced after 10 years of marriage. She then became an occupational writer.

She was appointed as an editor at Shaoxing Opera Group after the Anti-Japanese War. After the War of Liberation, she paid heavy cost for her experience of becoming famous. In 1955, she was put into jail for some ridiculous reasons. She died in 1982 in Shanghai, where she became famous, after struggling with poverty and illness.

Works

Su Qing was once called Feng Yunzhuang and used the name Feng Heyi for her early works. Later, she used Su Qing as her pen name. 1935 is the year she started her writing career. Delivery is her first work which was published in the magazine called Lun Yu. Most of her works are published in magazines including: The Wind of the Universe , Yi Jing , Ancient and Modern , The Talk about the weather and The Heaven and Earth . She is often compared with another famous female writer, Zhang Ailing

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, by people at that time.

Her representative work is 10 Years of Marriage which was published in 1943. The fictional work is an autobiography which describes her experiences about her life since she was married. It contains her feeling of marriage at first, the bitterness and happiness of delivery, the extramarital love and the associations with different kinds of men. Owing to the authentic descriptions of sexual psychology, she was described as a bold female writer and got both praise and blame. The fiction had its separate edition the following year. 10 Years of Marriage had 18 editions at the end of 1948, which surpassed Zhang Ailing’s fiction. In 1947, she created the continuation of 10 Years of Marriage.

Su Qing wrote a large number of essays. She also wrote a novel called The Beauty on the Wrong Road , which caused a shortage of printing paper.

During the years at Shaoxing Opera Group, she compiled these plays: Hate Remains in the Land, Qu Yuan, Baoyu and Daiyu and The Biography of Li Wa. Baoyu and Daiyu has been performed more than 300 times since 1954 and created the highest records of the Opera group.