Shen Rong
Shen Rong is a Chinese writer. Her name also appears as Chen Rong.
She was born Shen Derong in Hankou, Hubei. Because of the political unrest of the time, her family moved frequently, finally settling in Chongqing. She worked as an assistant at a publishing house and studied Russian in Beijing. She then worked as a translator at a radio station but was released in 1963 due to illness. In 1973, she went to live with a peasant family in Shanxi.
She began writing in the 1970s, producing the novel The Eternal Spring. Her story At Middle Age won a literary award and was made into a movie, catapulting her into the spotlight. In 1991, she published At Old Age.
In 1983, she wrote the essay Novels strangled in the cradle: My Senseless Literary Battles, which described her difficulties as a writer living through radical shifts in her society's ideology.
