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Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900-Febrary 28.1999), better known by her pen name Bing Xin, was one
of the most well-known Chinese writers of the 20th century. Many of
her works were written for young readers. Her pen name
Bing Xin carries the meaning of a pure heart, and is taken from a line in a
Tang Dynasty poem by Wang Changling.
Bing Xin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, but moved to
Shanghai with her family when she was seven months old, and later moved yet
again to the coastal port city of Yantai, Shandong, when she was four. Such a move had a
key influence on Bing Xin's personality and philosophy (哲学)
of love and beauty, as the hugeness and beauty of the sea greatly opened young
Bing Xin's mind and heart. It was also in Yantai, Bing Xin first began to read
the classics of Chinese literature, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms
and Water Margin, when she was just seven.
In 1913, Bing Xin moved to Beijing. She started her
writing career as she wrote for a school newspaper at Yanjing University where
she was a student and published her first novel. Bing Xin graduated from
Yanjing University in 1923 with a bachelor's degree, and went to the United
States to study at Wellesley College, earning a master's degree at Wellesley in
literature in 1926. She then returned to Yanjing University to teach until
1936.
In 1929, she married Wu Wenzao, her good friend when
they were studying in the United States. In literature, Bing Xin founded the
"Bing Xin Style" as a new literary style. She
contributed a lot to children's literature in China such as A Myriad of
Stars (1923), Spring Water (1923), Six-one sister (1924), To
Young Readers (1926), Homeward South (1931), The Collected Works
of Bing Xin (1932-1933). Bing Xin's literary career was productive. She
wrote a lot of works — prose, poetry, novels, reflections and so on. There is a
Bing Xin Literature Museum in Changle in Fujian Province. The Bing Xin
Children's Literature Award is named in her honour.
