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Ling Shuhua was born in 1904 into a family of calligraphy and painting in the ancient city of Beijing. She is a very outstanding Chinese modernist female writer.Ling shuhua has many famous short stories "The Temple of Flowers", "Women", "Little Brothers" and his collection of essays "Love mountain Dream". And Ling Shuhua is best known for her autobiography, written in China in 1930, Anicent Melodies.She was no ordinary writer, and was known abroad as "She was like speaking with clipped tongue" as she used her" special writing style "in writing English books.

Not only that, because born in a family of painting and calligraphy, Ling Shuhua is also an accomplished painter. She also studied painting at the court of the Empress Dowager Cixi and was his apprentice. She is one of the few talented women in Chinese history.In the historical background at that time, ling Shuhua can achieve such a great achievement. Women had no place in society in the 1920s and 1930s. Plus she was born into a famous family, and she grew up in a patriarchal environment all the time. Therefore, through the description of the implicit disclosure and criticism of the oppression of male power in her works, she broke the contract that bound women, thus transforming into the subversion of male power. To justify the unfair status of women in society.