Yu Luojin is a Chinese novelist.

She graduated from Beijing Arts and Crafts School in 1966. She was a toy designer.
During the Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution

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, she was sentenced to forced labor, for diary entries. Her brother was tortured, and executed. She married Wang Shijing, divorced, then Cai Zhongpai, and divorced. She was a member of the Chinese Woman's Association.

Her novel was criticized by the Chinese Youth Daily.
In 1985, she requested political asylum in Germany

Germany

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.
In 1993, she became a German citizen.

Works

• Yi ge dongtian de tonghua, 1980; Xianggang Zhongwen Daxue Fanyi Yanjiu Zhongxin, 1987
  • A Chinese winter's tale: an autobiographical fragment, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986, ISBN 9789622013834
  • Le nouveau conte d'hiver, Translators San Huang, Miguel Mandarès, C. Bourgois, 1982, ISBN 9782267002966
  • Ein Wintermärchen, Michael Nerlich, Engelhardt-Ng, 1985, ISBN 9783924716028
• Chuntian de tonghua, 1982
  • Conte de printemps, Translators San Huang, Miguel Mandarès, C. Bourgois, 1984, ISBN 9782267003864
• Seeking, 1983

Sources

• "Private Issues, Public Discourse: The Life and Times of Yu Luojin", Emily Honig, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 252-265

External links

• http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/3032