Yuan Jing (1914 – 29 July 1999[1]), born Yuan Xingzhuang, was a Chinese fiction writer, best known for her wartime novel Daughters and Sons (1949, co-authored with her then-husband Kong Jue), which was adapted into a successful 1951 film.
[2] Yuan Jing came from a famous intellectual family.
Her sister Yuan Xiaoyuan was China's first female diplomat.
[citation needed] Yuan Jing joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1935 and went to Yan'an during the Second Sino-Japanese War where she began to write in several genres.
Attacked during the Cultural Revolution, she resumed her writing in the 1980s, focusing on children's literature.