Ping Lu

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Ping Lu (Chinese: 平路; pinyin: Píng Lù; born 1953) is a Taiwanese writer. She was born in Gaoxiong to a father from Zhucheng in Shandong Province. Her name was originally Lu Ping. She is known in the Chinese speaking world for her social criticism and fiction.

Ping Lu graduated from the Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, and then from the Department of Statistics, University of Iowa. She worked at the United States Postal Service as a statistician, while also submitting fiction compositions to Taiwan newspapers. Her short story Death in a Cornfield won first prize in the 1983 United Daily News fiction competition. Other of her works have won the China Post prize in raportage and a prize in dramatic composition. She has worked as an editorial writer at The China Post, as a professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism and at the Graduate Institute of Art Management at Taipei University of the Arts.

Of her many works, her 1995 novel Walking the Road to the Edge of the Earth about the marriage relationship of Sun Yat-sen and Song Qingling attracted the most notice. In 2002 she published a novel about the death of Deng Lijun called When Will You Come Again?.

In 2002, Ping Lu started working at the Guanghua News Cultural Center in Hong Kong. She lives in Hong Kong and serves as an ambassador-at-large for Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.