Sophie Merle

Miss Sophia's Diary, or The Diary of Miss Sophie, is a confessional fictional diary by the Chinese author Ding Ling written in 1927. The story confides around a young woman who has tuberculosis and has left her family for Beijing. She struggles with her identity and the story describes her life through first person diary entries. This type of writing can give impressions of the daily struggle of a modern woman in China. The entries consist of her thoughts and emotions, in particularly about he…