# Ke Ling
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{{Short description|Chinese journalist, publicist and writer (1909–2000)}}
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'''Ke Ling''' ({{lang|zh|柯灵}}; 1909 – 19 June 2000)[{{cite book|last1=Peng|first1=Hsiao-yen|last2=Rabut|first2=Isabelle|title=Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xb0FAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA136|date=7 March 2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-27022-0|page=136}}] was a Chinese journalist, publicist and writer. He is best known for his involvement with the Leftist newspaper ''[Wenhui Bao](/source/Wenhui_Bao)'', founded in February 1938.[{{cite book |last=Fu |first=Poshek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CqY00J1k9oC&pg=PA37 |title=Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937–1945 |publisher=[Stanford University Press](/source/Stanford_University_Press) |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-8047-2796-9 |page=37}}]
==Early life==
Ke Ling was born in the market town of Doumen in [Yuecheng District](/source/Yuecheng_District), [Shaoxing](/source/Shaoxing), [Zhejiang](/source/Zhejiang), and grew up in [Guangzhou](/source/Guangzhou). Primarily self-taught, in 1924 he became a teacher in an elementary school, and in 1928 he was the principal of an elementary school in [Xunyang](/source/Xunyang_District).[{{Cite web|script-title=zh:著名报人与散文家柯灵 |trans-title=Famous newspaperman and essayist Ke Ling |publisher=上海档案信息网 [Shanghai Archives Information Network] |date=24 June 2008 |url=http://www.archives.sh.cn/shjy/hsrw/201203/t20120313_6229.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612020242/http://www.archives.sh.cn/shjy/hsrw/201203/t20120313_6229.html |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=live }}]
In 1926, he published his first work in the [Commercial Press's](/source/The_Commercial_Press) ''Women's Magazine'' (妇女杂志) (1915-1932) of Shanghai. In 1931, he moved to Shanghai, where, beginning in 1932, he participated in the left-wing film movement and became a member of the Left-wing Drama Federation's {左翼剧联} Film Critic Group (影評小組).[{{Cite web |date=24 November 2016 |title= |script-title=zh:“剧联”影评小组的成立 |trans-title=The establishment of the "Julian" Film Critics Group |url=http://www.ccphistory.org.cn/node2/shds/n1408/u1ai22298.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007094514/http://www.ccphistory.org.cn/node2/shds/n1408/u1ai22298.html |archive-date=7 October 2017 |publisher=中共上海市委党史研究室 电话 [Party History Research Office of the [Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party](/source/Shanghai_Municipal_Committee_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party)]}}] In 1933, he assumed the job as the public relations director of [Mingxing](/source/Mingxing).