Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t10.6

v2.c10.s2.t10.6

At the age of 11, Bing Xin went to Fuzhou Women's Normal School for preparatory courses, and in 1913, she moved to Beijing with her father, who became the Head of Military Education under the Ministry of Navy of the Republic of China. In 1914, she went to study at Bridgeman Girls' School, and in 1918, she took preparatory courses at Union College for Women and intended to study medicine. After the May Fourth Movement broke out in 1919, she began to publish articles and was transferred to Department of Literature. The then, Union College for Women was incorporated into Yenching University. Through the introduction given by Xu Dishan and Qu Shiying, she joined the Literature Study Society, and subsequently published *Superman*, a collection of short novels. In 1923, she published *Many a Star* and *Spring Water*, and graduated from Yenching University with a Bachelor's degree. She then received a scholarship and went to the United States of America to study English Literature at Wellesley College. From July 25, 1923 to August 31, 1926, she wrote a prose called *To Little Readers* for a special column of children's world in *Chenbao Fujuan*. Then as an outstanding personality of the New Literature Movement, she was gaining literary fame and a great number of readers. She received a Master's degree in Literature in 1926 in the US, and then returned to China to teach at Yenching University, Tsinghua University and Beiping Women's College of Humanities and Sciences.