Rong Zi

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Rong Zi (Chinese: 蓉子) was the pen name of Wang Rongzi (Chinese: 王蓉芷; 4 May 1922 – 9 January 2021), a Chinese-born Taiwanese writer who is considered to be a leading modern day Taiwanese poet.^[1]

She was born in Jiangsu province and was educated in Christian primary and secondary schools. She continued her education at an agricultural college. She first worked as a teacher and then later at a radio station; she came to Taipei in 1949.^[2] She retired from the Taipei International Telecommunications Bureau in 1976.^[3]

She published her first book of poetry Qingniao ji (Blue Bird) in 1953. Rongzi married the poet Luo Men [zh] in 1955.^[2] The couple has been called "the Brownings of Chinese Modern Poetry".^[4] Besides several volumes of poetry, she also published essays and a volume of children's literature.^[4] She received national and international awards for her work.^[4]

Rong Zi returned to Jiangsu in 2019, to live with a relative. She died in Xuzhou on 9 January 2021.^[5][6]

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