Ling Shuhua, formerly known as Ling, took the pen names Su Xin,, and so on. Her English name is Su Hua. Originally from Panyu County, Guangdong Province,1900 was born in an official family in Beijing on March 25th. When I was young, I studied painting with famous painters Miao Suyun, Wang and Hao Shuyu, and I also studied English with Gu Hongming. I grew up in a strong literary atmosphere. 1922 entered the Foreign Languages Department of yenching university, majoring in English and French and minoring in Japanese. He joined the yenching university Literature Society and began to write. 1924, published novels such as My Daughter's Life is Too Sad, Christmas of Capitalists, I'm sorry, and essays such as Hadamen Street in Fog. The language skills of these works are relatively immature and have little response.

1925 1, Ling Shuhua published a short story "Drunk" in Modern Review, which became famous for her delicate and bold description of women's psychology. Later, many novels were published in Modern Review, and Lu Xun called them writers from Modern Review. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, Ling Shuhua published dozens of short stories in Modern Review, New Moon, Morning Post Supplement, Novel Monthly, Beidou, Literature Magazine, Moon Hee Monthly, Wuhan Daily Supplement, Modern Literature and Art, etc. Most of these works were included in the Collection of Novels. Among them, novels such as Embroidered Pillow describe graceful women in the old family ... so that we can see ... a corner of the world, the soul of a famous family. "(Lu Xun language) meticulous and elegant brushwork. Ling Shuhua is also good at writing childlike innocence and interest. Children's modality is vividly portrayed in works such as Little Brother.

From 65438 to 0935, Ling Shuhua edited the supplement of Wuhan Daily and Modern Literature and Art, and wrote autobiographical prose in English during the Anti-Japanese War, which was collected and published in Britain in 1953 and named "Ancient Melody". From 65438 to 0947, Ling Shuhua and her husband Chen Yuan (Chen Xiying) went to France and settled in England. After 1956, he taught China's modern and contemporary literature at Nanyang University and University of Toronto. 1960 published the collection of short stories by Ling Shuhua and the collection of essays and comments on the dream of love in the mountains. In addition, she wrote twelve one-act plays. After 1968, at the invitation of universities such as London, Oxford and Edinburgh, special lectures were held on China's modern literature and China's painting and calligraphy. During his overseas residence, Ling Shuhua held many exhibitions of solo and Tibetan paintings, which had a great influence. 1972 and went back to China for sightseeing several times. 65438+ returned to China at the end of 0989, and 1990 died in Beijing on May 22nd.