Hong Ying
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Hong Ying was born in Chongqing
on September 21, 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward
. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories.
After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University
, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she settled as a writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries. She won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993–1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
on September 21, 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China , reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern...
. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories.
After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University
Fudan University
Fudan University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most selective universities in China, and is a member of the C9 League. Its institutional predecessor was founded in 1905, shortly before the end of China's imperial Qing dynasty...
, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she settled as a writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries. She won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love in 2005 and many of her books have been or are now in the process of being turned into television series and films.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993–1998. In her work, she likes to focus on human stories, hardship and history. Her responsibility as a writer, she believes, is in part to explore the lives of marginalised groups struggling for visibility – and for compassion – in contemporary China.
Novels
- 《K: The Art of Love》
- Daughter of the River《饥饿的女儿》(in Chinese, literally: Daughter of Hunger)
- Summer of Betrayal
- Ananda
- Lord of Shanghai
- Death in Shanghai
- Peocock Cries
- Far Goes the Girl (1994)
- Taiwan: Erya Press 1996; Mainland China: Jiangsu Literary Press 1997
- Summer of Betrayal (1995)
- Meulenhoff, Holland, 1997; Tiden Norsk, Norway, 1997; De Seuil, France, 1997; Bloomsbury, UK, 1997; Farrar Straus & Giroux, US, 1997; Krueger, Germany, 1997 (paperback by Aufbau 2004); Mondadori, Italy, 1997; Aoyama, Japan, 1998; Plaza & Janes, Spain, 1998; Gyldendal, Denmark, 1998; Norstedts, Sweden, 1998; Livros do Brasil, Portugal, 2001
- Daughter of the River (1997)
- Taiwan: Erya Press, 1997; Mainland China: Sichuan Literary Press, 1999 (Relaunched by Lijiang Press 2001, Relaunched by Zhishi Press, 2003); Meulenhoff, Holland, 1998; Bloomsbury, UK, 1998; Mondadori, Italy, 1998; Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1998; Grove/Atlantic, US 1999; Norstedts, Sweden, 1999; Tiden Norsk, Norway, 1999; De Sueil, France,1999; Kinneret, Israel, 2001; Politik Forlag, Denmark, 2001; Otava, Finland, 2001; Govostis, Greece, 2002; Hangilsa, South Korea; Shuei-Sha, Japan; Bertelsmann Media, Poland; Aufbau, Germany; Planeta, Spain
- A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Stories and Novellas (1993–1998)
- Edition Cathey, Bochum University Press, 1999
- K (1999)
- Taiwan, Erya Press, 1999; Mainland China, Huashan Press, 2001 (Relaunched by Spring Breeze Press, 2003); Meulenhoff, Holland, 2000; Norstedts, Sweden 2001; Marion Boyars, UK & US, 2002 (Paperback bought by Transworld); De Seuil, France, 2003; Hangilsa, South Korea; Aufbau, Germany, 2004; Metaichimo, Greece; Ganzanti Libri, Italy; Metaixmio, Greece; Grup 62, Spain; Pluto, Slovenia; Kineret, Israel; JLX Publishers, Hungary; Kasander Film Company signed Film Option, December 2003
- Ananda (2001)
- Mainland China: Hunan Literary Press, 2001 (Relaunched by Zhishi Press 2003); Taiwan: Unitas Press, 2002
- The Peacock Cries (2002)
- Mainland China: Zhishi Publishing House 2003; Taiwan: Unitas Publishing House 2003; English: Marion Boyars, 2004; Germany: Aufbau
- Lord of Shanghai (2003)
- Mainland China: Changjiang Literary Publishing House, 2003; Taiwan: Nine Songs Publishing House, 2003; Film adaptation purchased by Sherwood Hu, 2003; TV adaptation right purchased by Tongdao Film Company, 2003; Germany: Aufbau; South Korea: Hangilsa
- The Green Platye (2004)
- Mainland China: Shanghai Literary Press, 2004; Taiwan: Nine Songs Press, 2004
- Death in Shanghai (2005)
- Taiwan: Nine Songs Press, 2005; Mainland China: Shandong Publishing House, March 2005; Hairun Film Company signed film/TV double contract, March 2005; South Korea: Hangilsa