In her later years, Ling Shuhua
celebrated this day as her date of birth. Her great-niece and biographer Sasha Su-Ling Welland
notes that she previously claimed to be born in 1904. There is no definitive...
Cultural formation
Ling Shuhua
Their studies, intimate relationships, intellectual pursuits, and careers were shaped by the political and cultural shifts in their homeland during their early years. In her biography of the sisters, who were her great-aunt and grandmother,...
death
Ling Shuhua
Sasha Su-Ling Welland
, her great-niece and biographer, notes that her last words were, I won't die.
qtd. in
Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
321-2
Her husband Chen Xiying
died in 1970, and her ashes are buried in his tomb near Lake...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ling Shuhua
LS was closest to her sister who was likely born in 1904, Ling Shuhao
. When the pair began their studies together their father gave them their names, Shuhua and Shuhao
. Sasha Su-Ling Welland
Family and Intimate relationships
Ling Shuhua
Sasha Su-Ling Welland
, Ling Shuhua
's great-niece, travelled through China and the United States to write a biography of Ling Shuhua
and Amy Ling Chen
(Welland's maternal grandmother) that also reflects on gender codes...
Sasha Su-Ling Welland
, the author's great-niece and biographer, observes the discrepancies between LS's life and autobiography. She identifies the ways in which LS not only elides difficult truths about herself and her family by...
Literary responses
Ling Shuhua
Sasha Su-Ling Welland
observed that the story demonstrates its author's youthful flare [sic] for the melodramaticand that LS uses the catkin, a traditional literary symbol for a particular kind of cainü, the precocious female...
Textual Production
Ling Shuhua
The story depicts torture and disappearances stemming from underground anti-Japanese activity by Chinese citizens via the story of a single mother and her two children. Sasha Su-Ling Welland
finds the case for LS's authorship compelling...
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Texts
Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.