1. Bing Xin was the chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
17 Facts About Bing Xin
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Bing Xin published her first prose in the Morning Post The Impressions of the 21st Hearing and her first novel Two Families in August 1919.
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Bing Xin was hired by the University of Tokyo as the first foreign female lecturer to teach a Chinese New Literature course.
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Bing Xin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, moved to Shanghai with her family when she was seven months old, and moved again to the coastal port city of Yantai, Shandong when she was four.
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Bing Xin entered Fuzhou Women's Normal School and started preparatory study in 1911.
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Bing Xin entered the science department of North China Union Women's University and began to learn to become a doctor.
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Bing Xin graduated from Yanjing University in 1923 with a bachelor's degree, and went to the United States to study at Wellesley College, earning a master's degree at Wellesley in literature in 1926.
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Bing Xin then returned to Yanjing University to teach until 1936.
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In 1940, Bing Xin was elected a member of the National Senate.
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Later in her life, Bing Xin taught in Japan for a short period and stimulated more cultural communications between China and the other parts of the world as a traveling Chinese writer.
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In literature, Bing Xin founded the "Bing Xin Style" as a new literary style.
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Bing Xin contributed a lot to children's literature in China, and undertook various translation tasks, including translating the works of Indian literary figure Rabindranath Tagore.
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Bing Xin wrote the influential prose letters To the Little Readers, which was the best example.
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Bing Xin was just influenced by Tagore's Stray Birds and wrote these "fragmented thoughts" in a few words in her notebook then collected into a collection.
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Bing Xin's career spanned more than seven decades in length, from 1919 to the 1990s.
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In June 1980, Bing Xin suffered from cerebral thrombosis, but she still insisted on writing.
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In September 1994, Bing Xin was admitted to Beijing Hospital due to heart failure.