[2] Lu Yin's tense relationship with her mother and the neglect she faced as a child would inform the themes of many of her future writings that explored characters with unhappy childhoods.

[1] In 1908 at the age of nine, Lu Yin's mother would send her away to a Christian missionary boarding school in Beijing where she improved her reading and writing skills to become highly literate by the end of her education at the institution.

[1] Lin met Lu Yin at a family dinner and lent her a copy of Xu Zhenya's, "Jade Pear Spirit", a melodramatic story of unrequited love.

[1] In this published critique Lu Yin began to demonstrate her feminist leanings and would continue to do so throughout 1920 with her essays and poems that explored women's liberation in student writing forums.

[1] In 1921 Lu Yin met the philosophy scholar Guo Mengliang through the Fujian Students Association and began exchanging letters and spending time with him publicly.

[1] The difficulties faced by Lu Yin in this relationship inspired her autobiographical melodrama entitled, "Haibin guren" that follows the tribulations of a young educated woman who gets involved with a married man.

[1] By 1925 Lu Yin's writing career was gaining traction but this was halted when her husband died suddenly of lung disease in October of that year, leaving her with an infant daughter and financial woes.

[1] During her life, Shi Pingmei had been very close to Lu Yin with an intimacy that was similar to heterosexual love[4] and the two writers often publicly displayed their friendship through their published poems, essays and stories.

[1] This relationship caused much controversy due to Lu Yin's status as a widowed mother of a young daughter and the nine year age gap between her and her younger lover.

[1] During the period from February 14 to April 8, 1930, sixty-eight of the couple's love letters were published and depicted the development of their relationship for readers intrigued by Lu Yin's status as a notable woman writer and the identity of her younger lover.

[1] In the summer of 1930 Lu Yin and Li Weijian went to Tokyo to elope and live a quiet life in Japan however, financial burden caused them to move back to China at the end of 1930.

[1] Lu Yin survived her surgery but would die days later on May 13, 1934, from complications that historians consistently cite as relating to pregnancy and labour however, the exact medical explanation for her death still remains unclear despite her husband's account.

[5] Lu Yin is recognized mainly as a fiction author and feminist rhetorician whose writings aimed to highlight social injustices and the difficulties faced by Chinese women in the 20th century.

[6] Lu Yin's writings on female friendship and the lives of women often contained themes of suicide, depression, cynical outlooks on love and the hardships of married life.

[1] Lu Yin's May Fourth-era work often focused on autobiographically young, educated female protagonists who were framed by first person narratives to depict their struggles in society.

[1] The majority of Lu Yin's writings were autobiographically based, with her characters reflecting the different stages in her life from student, to wife, to friend, with the theme of the disillusioned educated woman becoming a notable trope across all her works.