Su Hsueh-Lin (1897–1999)

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Su Hsueh-Lin (1897–1999)

Chinese essayist and literary critic. Name variations: Su Xuelin. Born 1897 in China; died April 21, 1999, in southern Taiwan.

Renowned scholar, critic and journal writer, was involved in the May Fourth student movement (1919); wrote The Bitter Heart (1929); her The Diary of Su Hsueh-lin, covering 1948 and 1996, and comprising 15 volumes, was published in Chinese in 1999.

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