Name Shu Ting | Role Poet | |
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Books The Mist of My Heart: Selected Poems of Shu Ting, Selected Poems: An Authorized Collection | ||
Shu ting
Shu Ting (Chinese: 舒婷; pinyin: Shū Tíng; born 1952 Jinjiang, Fujian) is the pen name of Gong Peiyu (Chinese: 龚佩瑜; pinyin: Gōng Pèiyú), a Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets.
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Life
During the Cultural Revolution, she was sent to the countryside, (because her father was accused of ideological nonconformity), until 1973. Back in Fujian, she had to work at a cement factory, a textile mill, and a lightbulb factory. She began to write poetry in 1969 and her work was published in several literary magazines. Her poetry began to appear in the underground literary magazine Jīntiān (Today). In the early 1980s, she achieved prominence as the leading female representative of the Misty Poets. Her first collection, Shuangwei chuan appeared in 1982, as did a joint-collection with Gu Cheng.
She was asked to join the official Chinese Writers' Association, and won the National Outstanding Poetry Award in 1981 and 1983. During the "anti-spiritual pollution" movement that was launched in 1983, she, like other writers that were thought to be subversive by the state, was heavily criticised. Following this she published two collections with poetry: Hui changge de yiweihua and Shizuniao.