Zhong Ling (author)

Zhong Ling (Chinese: 鍾玲; born 1945) is a Taiwan-Chinese writer, critic, educator and translator. Her name also appears as Chung Ling.

She was born in Chongqing in Sichuan province and came to Taiwan with her family in 1950. Zhong was educated at a girl's school in Kaohsiung, at Tunghai University and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She taught at State University of New York at Albany, at Hong Kong University and at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, where she became director of the Literature Program. In 1977, she married director Hu Jinquan; the couple divorced in 1991. Zhong has edited and translated collections of Chinese poetry into English, such as Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (1972) with Kenneth Rexroth.

During her marriage to Hu Jinquan, she wrote several screenplays for his film company, including Legend of the Mountain.

Selected works

• Chʻih tsu tsai tsʻao ti shang (Barefoot on the grass), essays (1970)
• Qunshan huhuan wo (The mountains are calling me), prose & verse (1981)
• Fenfang de hai (Fragrant sea), poetry (1989)