A conference about famous Chinese female writer Bing Xin's
posthumous works was held on September 10 in Beijing, also marking
an early celebration of the 106th anniversary of Bing Xin's October
5 birthday.
Bing Xin, whose original name was Xie Wanying, wrote a lot of
melancholy poems, stories, and essays that enjoyed great
popularity.
Thirty-seven works found by Bing Xin's family and overseas
scholars will be published posthumously by the People's Literature
Publishing House, under the title Bing Xin Posthumous
Works.
"Melancholy," an unpublished work discovered by Fang Xide, a
professor at Peking University, is the longest and the only love
story written by Bing Xin. Fang says the structure, language style
and form of narration are different from the author's other
works.
Bing Xin's diary and an unfinished book called The First
Sino-Japanese War, dedicated to her husband who joined the
war, were also found by Bing Xin's daughter, Wu Qing.
Wu Qing described how her mother would always tell her, "People
are not the same as the government; Japanese people were suffering
the same as Chinese people at that time."
Regarding the publishing of the newly-found works, Wu Qing said,
"The useless-looking papers my mother left behind might now shine
somehow."
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(Xinhua News Agency September 14, 2006)
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