Tie Ning’s Fiction: Self-realisation, Victimhood and Political History

Tie Ning is a prominent writer who deals with feminist themes. She was born in Beijing to an artistic and intellectual family: her father was a painter and her mother was a musician (Leung, 2016, p. 230). In her childhood, with her father’s permission and support, she read his translated novels and photo books, which expanded her literary and cultural perspectives