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Want there to be an article on Dai Houying, the chinese author of Stones of a Wall. Info already elsewhere on the web:

Dai Houying – (1938 – 1996) Chinese novelist and writer Dai Houying was born in central Anhui province into a relatively poor family. She attended university and trained as a teacher in Shanghai. During the Cultural Revolution she was forced to sit on a committee which condemned the poet Wen Jie, and the two formed an attachment. She was accused of counter-revolutionary behaviour and her husband divorced her. The government refused Dai and Wen permission to marry and Wen then committed suicide. Her grief at his death led to Dai taking up writing and she produced several novels including Humanity which was published in English as Stones of the Wall (1986). Her works have the recurring theme of suicide. Dai Houying was murdered in her own home in Shanghai, aged fifty-eight.