Ding Ling (1904–1986)

Chinese novelist. Her works include Wei Hu (1930) and The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River (1951).

She was imprisoned by the Kuomintang (Guomindang, the nationalists under Jiang Jie Shi, or Chiang Kai-shek) in the 1930s, wrongly labelled as rightist and expelled from the Communist Party in 1957, imprisoned in the 1960s and intellectually ostracized for not keeping to Maoist literary rules; she was rehabilitated in 1979. Her husband was the writer Hu Yapin, executed by Jiang Jie Shi's police in 1931.