Sasha Su-Ling Welland

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...

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,...

Sasha Su-Ling Welland , her great-niece and biographer, notes that her last words were, I won't die. Her husband Chen Xiying died in 1970, and her ashes are buried in his tomb near Lake...

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

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...

The artists came together at this time: Bell and Duncan Grant added small pieces to LS's friendship scroll, and LS painted some of Quentin Bell 's ceramics. LS briefly met Arthur Waley via Vanessa Bell

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...

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...

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...