Zong Pu

Zong Pu, whose original name is Feng Zhongpu, was born in Beijing in 1928. She is a daughter of the philosopher Feng Youlan and graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University. She served as a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has long written fiction and essays. Her representative works include the stories Hongdou and Sanshengshi, the essay "The Wisteria Waterfall", and the novel series Yehulu Yin, of which Dongcang Ji won the sixth Mao Dun Literature Prize. Her essays often draw on everyday observations and personal reflections, with a gentle, restrained style that reveals feeling in ordinary things; her fiction is skilled at portraying the fates and inner lives of intellectuals.