Zeng Lili (; 13 February 1942 – 18 July 2018), better known by her

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Ling Li (), was a Chinese writer and historian. She was born in

Yan'an Yan'an; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively spelled as Yenan is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of Shaanxi Province of China, province, China, bordering Shanxi to the east and Gansu to the west. It administers several c ...

. Her ancestral home is

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. She graduated from PLA's Xi'an Institute of Telecommunication Engineering (now Xidian University). Having worked as a missile engineer for 12 years, she transferred to the institute of Qing Dynasty History at

Renmin University The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and ...

and became a scholar. She was the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, and a member of Chinese Writers Association's 6th committee. She was awarded the

Lao She Literary Award The Lao She Literary Award (''Lao She wenxue jiang'' 老舍文学奖) is named after the Chinese novelist Lao She, a writer and activist of 20th-century Chinese literature. The award is awarded to a Beijing writer every two to three years, recognisi ...

in 2000.

Awards and honours

* 1991, Mao Dun Prize

Works

*Young Emperor () *Guan River of Broken Dreams () *暮鼓晨钟 *星星草 *倾城倾国

References

External links

Ling Li's profile on sina.com
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