I have included Bing Xin in this project in order to
illustrate the role of China in the First World War. The Chinese Labour Corps was created by the British
Government in order to work behind the scenes and thus leaving the troops to
get on with the fighting.
Bing Xin, who is featured in Female Poets of the First World War Volume 1, was born on 5th December 1900 in
Fuzhou, Fujan,, China. Her family
moved to Shandong when she was four years old. In 1913, they moved to Beijing where she wrote for her
school magazine and published her first novel.
After a long and distinguished career as a writer, Bing Xin died in Beijing on 28th February
1999.
“The mirror
Reflects me face to face.
However, I feel it to be unnatural.
Better to turn it around!”
From “Infinite Stars” by Bing Xin, first published in
1921.
