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| Acknowledgements | ||
| A Note on Transliteration | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | Earliest Recollections | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Beginnings | 3 |
| Footbinding | 4 | |
| An Extraordinary Journey | 5 | |
| Home Again and Growing Up | 8 | |
| Marriage | 9 | |
| The Birth of Ding Ling | 11 | |
| Ding Ling's Early Childhood | 13 | |
| The Story of Qiu Jin | 15 | |
| Ch. 3 | Mother and Daughter Embarking on a New Life | 17 |
| A New Life and a New Identity | 18 | |
| To the Big City | 20 | |
| The Daughter's Growing Independence | 21 | |
| The Mother's Career | 22 | |
| The Daughter's Schooling and the Death of the Only Son | 24 | |
| Coping with Grief | 25 | |
| Ch. 4 | Separation and Reunion | 27 |
| One Step Higher and One Step Away | 28 | |
| A Reinvigorated Manzhen | 30 | |
| Changing Schools | 31 | |
| Plunging Back into Grieving | 32 | |
| Ch. 5 | Breaking Away | 35 |
| Ding Ling's Engagement | 35 | |
| Shanghai | 37 | |
| A Time of Exploration | 39 | |
| The Tragic Life of Qu Qiubai | 43 | |
| The Mother's Struggle | 44 | |
| Ch. 6 | Testing Her Wings in Raging Storm | 47 |
| Hu Yepin: A Sketch | 48 | |
| Respite with Mother | 51 | |
| From Free Love to Marriage | 52 | |
| From Anarchism to Communism | 54 | |
| A Turning Point | 57 | |
| Seeing the Light | 59 | |
| The Sudden Eclipse | 61 | |
| Following Her Husband's Footsteps | 63 | |
| Soaring High | 65 | |
| Ch. 7 | Caged Up in a World of Demons and Monsters | 67 |
| News, Protests, and Rumors | 70 | |
| The Contest of Wills | 71 | |
| Wintering in a Summer Resort | 76 | |
| The Mother's Visit | 77 | |
| The Unspeakable Anguish | 81 | |
| The Grip Loosens | 82 | |
| Ch. 8 | Escape to Freedom | 85 |
| Shattered Dreams | 89 | |
| The Captor: Xu Enzeng's Version | 91 | |
| Feng Da's Feelings | 93 | |
| Taking Off | 93 | |
| Ch. 9 | The Yan'an Period | 97 |
| Yan'an | 97 | |
| Chen Ming: A Sketch | 100 | |
| Love and Marriage | 101 | |
| A Communist First, Writer Second | 102 | |
| The Triumph of the Communists | 104 | |
| The Zenith of Ding Ling's Career | 105 | |
| Ch. 10 | Trials and Tribulations in the Shifting Political Winds | 107 |
| The Anti-Rightist Campaign: 1957-1958 | 108 | |
| The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: 1966-1976 | 115 | |
| Abuse, Imprisonment, and Hard Labor | 116 | |
| Solitary Confinement | 118 | |
| Ch. 11 | Free Again and Exonerated | 121 |
| Freedom and Rehabilitation | 122 | |
| The Remaining Years | 124 | |
| Ch. 12 | The Evolving Ideological Conviction: A Western Psychobiographical Analysis | 129 |
| Cognitive Dissonance | 130 | |
| Psychological Resilience | 134 | |
| Defensive Identification | 135 | |
| Ch. 13 | A Filial Daughter and A Loyal Subject: A Chinese Interpretation | 137 |
| The Mandate of Heaven and the Responsibility to Remonstrate | 140 | |
| Ch. 14 | Human Development in Sociohistorical Context | 143 |
| Afterword | 147 | |
| Chronology | 149 | |
| References | 151 | |
| Index | 157 |
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Pamela Davis
reviewed Ding Ling and Her Mother: A Cultural Psychological Study on May 04, 2012
Ding Ling and Her Mother: A Cultural Psychological Study
After reading K-the art of love, I became very curious about its author and decided to read her autobiography next. It didn't exactly tell me how she came to write K, nor how she came to write at all, but it turned out interesting nonetheless.
Hong Ying was born at Chongquing in 1962, at the end of a major famine that hit China as a result of population growth and mismanagement of the agricultural production. Thus, her novelized recollection of her childhood, culminating in discoveries about herself that she makes on her 18th birthday, could have easily produced one of those misery memoirs that have been so epidemic in recent years.
What saves it from descending that road is the curiously detached voice of the author who never seems to pity herself or the other protagonists. She describes hunger, violence and the regular sight of dead bodies floating down the river with equal emotional detachment, making the reader wonder whether this is a natural defence that children develop when they grow up in horrific circumstances, or whether there is an Asperger gene or two at play. For a teenage girl, our heroine cares remarkably little about what other people think. She sometimes even muses about her own detachment and aloofness.
Driven by her quest to solve the mysteries of her past, this story is quite gripping, even though the signposting often gives the events away beforehand. Most of all, it makes readers born at around the same time in a different place (like me, for example), consider ourselves very lucky indeed. What we now need from her is a sequel telling us how she escaped from the life of misery that could have become her destiny, and how she became a writer recognized around the world.
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