Zong Pu

Not to be confused with Zeng Pu.

Zong Pu
Native name	宗璞
Born	Feng Zhongpu (冯钟璞) (1928-07-26) July 26, 1928 (age 96) Beijing, China
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Chinese
Alma mater	Nankai University Tsinghua University
Period	1948–present
Genre	Novel, prose
Notable works	Eastern Concealment
Notable awards	6th Mao Dun Literature Prize 2001 Eastern Concealment
Parents	Feng Youlan (father)
Chinese name
Chinese	宗 璞
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zōng Pú

Feng Zhongpu (born 26 July 1928), better known by her pen name Zong Pu, is a Chinese novelist. ^[1] She won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for her 2001 novel, Eastern Concealment. ^[2]

Born in Beijing, Zong is the daughter of Feng Youlan, a prominent philosopher, and she grew up on various university campuses. ^[3] Zong graduated from Tsinghua University in 1951. She became a member of the China Writers Association in 1962.

Works

• Hong dou (Red Beans), 1957
• Xian shang de meng (Dream on the Strings), 1978
• 'Sanheng shi' (Everlasting Rock), 1980. Translated by Aimee Lykes as The Everlasting Rock, 1998. ISBN   978-0894107825.
• shu shui (Who am I), 1979
• (A Head in the Marshes), 1985
• Nan du ji (Heading South), 1988
• Dong cang ji (Hiding in the East), 2001

Translated works (English)

• Departure for the South ^[4]
• Eastern Concealment ^[5]

References

1. Zong Pu Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , retrieved October 16, 2012
2. Laureate Writers Awarded, China.org.cn, July 27, 2005, retrieved April 29, 2011.
3. Li-Hua Ying (2010). Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. Scarecrow Press. pp. 292–3. ISBN   978-0-8108-5516-8 . Retrieved 16 October 2012.
4. Zong, Pu (2018). Departure for the South. London: ACA Publishing Limited. ISBN   978-1-910760-34-5. OCLC   1036286009.
5. Zong, Pu (2019). Eastern Concealment. London: ACA Publishing. ISBN   978-1-910760-35-2.

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• Research Note: Women Writers by Gladys Yang in China Quarterly, No. 103 (Sep., 1985), pp. 510–517.
• The river fans out: Chinese fiction since the late 1970s by Henry Y. H. Zhao, European Review (2003), 11: 193-208 Cambridge University Press.