Lu Yin 
Love Grows, Love Dies 

This short story happens in the Republic of China era. The frustrated Lish finds solace in Reching. The two college girls’ friendship blossoms into love but the socially unacceptable relationship has to break up. Affections end up with agony. Reching’s parents convince her to marry a man, leaving Lish with a broken heart.

Over de auteur

Lu Yin, alias Huang Ying, was a great female writer during the May Fourth Movement, an intellectual revolution and sociopolitical reform movement that occurred in China in 1919. Her pen name had the connotation of being a hermit. Lu Yin, Bing Xin and Phyllis Lin were feted as the Three Talented Women of Fuzhou. In addition, she and the other writers were recognised as 18 influential Chinese female writers in the Writing Women in Modern China published by Columbia University Press in 2003.