Feng Yuanjun

Feng Yuanjun was born into a family of wealthy literati.

[1] She was educated at the Women's Higher Normal School in Beijing from 1917 to 1922 and participated in the May Fourth Movement during this time.

[1] From 1932 to 1935, she worked on a doctoral thesis on classical Chinese literature at the Universite de Paris in France.

[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Feng Yuanjun and her husband Lu Kanru lived and worked in various locations in southern and south-western China.

She died of colon cancer in 1974, before the end of the Cultural Revolution.