Gui was born in
Wuhan,
Hubei in 1930. She entered
Tsinghua University in 1949, majoring in French at the Department of Foreign Language, where she graduated in 1952. Gui started to publish works in 1957. In 1966, the
Cultural Revolution was launched by
Mao Zedong, she was sent to the
May Seventh Cadre Schools to work with her children in
Jiangxi. In 1976,
Hua Guofeng and
Ye Jianying toppled the
Gang of Four, she was rehabilitated, she returned to Beijing and taught at Peking University. Gui retired in 1997. She died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 92. ==Translation==