Ping Lu

LU Ping (zh-cp|c=路平|p=Píng Lù), born in Kaohsiung in 1953, writes under the pen name "PING Lu." Her writing encompasses a broad range of genres, including novels, essays, poems, commentary, and theater plays. She is also known in the Chinese-language world for her critique of social phenomenon, ranging from cultural development to gender issues and human rights. Over the past two decades, Ms. Lu has successfully established herself as a prominent novelist, columnist, and commentator in Taiwan. Ms. Lu graduated from the Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, and gained a master's degree from the University of Iowa. While working as a statistician in the United States, she won first prize with her short story "Death in a Cornfield" in the 1983 United Daily News fiction competition. Her other works also won her many prizes, including a prize in prose and a prize in dramatic composition. In 2002, she published a novel about the death of a famous Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng entitled "When Will You Come Again?" (Chinese title: 何日君再來).

Of her literary works, "Love and Revolution" (Chinese title: 行道天涯; The Chinese version first came out in 1995, while the English version was published by Columbia University Press in 2006)attracted the most attention. Ms. Lu reimagines the lives of Sun Yat-sen and Song Qingling, a legendary couple in modern China. She not only explores their marital relations, including their failings and desires, but also mentions Sun Yat-sen's political career and Song Qingling's feelins of isolation and loneliness after her husband died. As Perry Link pointed out in his article entitled "Chinese Shadows" (published in November 16, 2006, by The New York Review), Ms. Lu also tries to find in Song Qingling "the person buried under all the layers of image-making" and to "reconstruct a credible portrait" of the famous womain. He also said Ms. Lu "succeeds in showing the ordinary and sometimes repugnant details of Qingling's life," and that she "may or may not be accurate about Qingling's inner life, but she certainly writes with honesty and with penetration." Prior to taking up her current post as director of Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center in January 2003, Ms. Lu had worked as an editorial writer for The China Times, spent many years lecturing on such subjects as feminism, cultural criticism, and news commentary at National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts, and served as ambassador at large for Taiwan for a few years.

Bibliography

Works listed in the Library of Congress catalog:

* Start early to build good health. (In: At kindergarten.) Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978.
* Deng Xiaoping zhu zuo si xiang sheng ping da shi dian. (with Zhai Taifeng, Zhang Weiqing) Taiyuan: Shanxi ren min chu ban she, 1993. ISBN 7203023338
* Kua shi ji de Guangdong gong ye. Guangzhou: Guangdong gao deng jiao yu chu ban she, 1999. ISBN 7536124066
* Qi ye zhuan huan jing ying ji zhi shi yong da quan. Shanghai: Xue lin chu ban she, 1993. ISBN 7805108560
* Shi di chao yue. Nanning Shi: Guangxi ren min chu ban she : Guangxi xin hua shu dian fa xing, 1990. ISBN 7219014694
* Tang Song chuan qi gu shi. Shanghai: Shanghai wen hua chu ban she : Xin hua shu dian Shanghai fa xing suo fa xing, 1983-1984.
* Wo kan dao yao yuan di fang di yi dian guang : "chuang ye ren di gu shi". Taibei Shi: Zhongguo sheng chan li zhong xin : Zong jing xiao Lian jing chu ban shi ye gong si, Min guo 81 [1992] ISBN 9579344477
* Little tadpoles looking for their mother. Shang-hai, China: Children’s Press, 1980.
* Xin shi di shen mei te zheng = Xinshi de shenmeitezheng. Shenyang Shi: Liaoning da xue chu ban she : Liaoning sheng xin hua shu dian fa xing, 1988. ISBN 7561003102
* Chi dao di chan hui : jian yu nei wai ji shi. Shanghai Zhi shi chu ban she: Xin hua shu dian Shanghai fa xing suo jing xiao, 1990. ISBN 7501554587
* Heng shuo wu ling : di si ye zhan jun jie fang zhong nan ji shi. Beijing: Guo fang da xue chu ban she, 1999. ISBN 756260942X
* Hsin li yen chiu. Tʻai-pei shih: Wu chou chʻu pan she, min kuo 72 [1983] .
* Kua shi ji de Guangdong xian dai hua tan suo. Guangzhou: Guangdong gao deng jiao yu chu ban she, 2000. ISBN 7536124414
* Love & revolution : a novel about Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen. (translated by Nancy Du.) New York: Columbia University Press, c2006. ISBN 0231138520
* Xi yu da shi di hua san. Shanghai: Zhi shi chu ban she, 1990. ISBN 750155448X
* Yu qiang nei wai. Xianggang Jiulong: Fan rong chu ban she, 1990.
* Zhongguo zheng zhi shou ce : Zhong Ying ming cheng dui zhao, fu She tuan ji gou jian jie. Xianggang: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1987. ISBN 9620760255
* Zhongguo zheng zhi shou ce : Zhong Ying ming cheng dui zhao. Xianggang: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1990. ISBN 9620760506
* Shanxi pi ying zhen shang = The shadow figure treasury of Shaanxi province. Shanghai Shi: Wen hui chu ban she, 2007. ISBN 9787807411284 and ISBN 7807411287