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Chinese Writers Association
China Writers Association or Chinese Writers Association (CWA, ) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). Founded in July 1949, the organization was initially named the China National Literature Workers Association. In September 1953, it was renamed the China Writers Association. The association's leadership was purged shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. In April 2012, the organization changed its translated name to China Writers Association. It now has more than 9,000 registered members, with branch associations across the nation. The first CWA Chair was Mao Dun, under the leadership of the then CFLAC Chairman Guo Moruo. In 1985, Mao Dun was succeeded by Ba Jin. The incumbent Chair is Tie Ning since 2006. Other successive Associate Chairs include Ding Ling, Feng Xuefeng, Lao She, Ke Zhongping, Shao Quanlin and Liu Baiyu. Chairs and Vice-Chairs ;Chairs #Mao Dun (1949–1981) #Ba Jin (1984–2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Organization
People's organization is a generic term for organizations in the People's Republic of China excluding governments, the official departments of government, and enterprises or institutions, yet are recognized to be a part of Chinese Communist Party's united front. List of people's organizations {, class="wikitable" style="text-align: centre , - !Rowspan=2, English name !Rowspan=2, Chinese name !Rowspan=2, Founded in/on !Colspan=4, Top leaders , - !Name !Birthdate !Party !Introduction , - , All-China Federation of Trade Unions , 中华全国总工会 , 1 May 1925 , Li Jianguo , , CCP , , - , Communist Youth League of China , 中国共产主义青年团 , August 1922 , Qin Yizhi , , CCP , , - , All-China Women's Federation , 中华全国妇女联合会 , 24 March 1949 , Shen Yueyue , , CCP , Female , - , China Federation of Literary and Art Circles , 中国文学艺术界联合会 , 19 July 1949 , Tie Ning , , CCP , Famous writer, acting since 1975 , - , China Writers Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Wenfu
Lu Wenfu(, March 23, 1927 - July 9, 2005) was a contemporary Chinese writer. He was interested in literature from an early age and devoted all his life to it. He worked for many years as journalist and a magazine editor and served as president of the Jiangsu Writers' Association ( :zh:江蘇作家協會, 江苏作家协会) and vice president of the Chinese Writers' Association ( :zh:中國作家協會, 中国作家协会). Lu's life ended in Suzhou, his favorite city in Jiangsu province. All his work is a mirror of this old city and that's why his novels are generally regarded as ''Suzhou literature''. He is famous for his first story ''Deep within a Lane (小巷深处)''. From then on, Lu started producing a lot of fictions and essays. Life Lu Wenfu was born in 1927 in Taixing, Jiangsu province. Being kept under the thoughtful and careful love of his mother, Lu spent a peaceful childhood. When 6 years old, Lu Wenfu went to an old-style school, where his teacher was impressed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang, and, in 1949, Mao Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Since then, the CCP has governed China with List of political parties in China, eight smaller parties within its United Front (China), United Front and has sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Each successive leader of the CCP has added their own theories to the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party, party's constitution, which outlines the ideological beliefs of the party, collectively referred to as socialism with Chinese characteristics. As of 2022, the CCP has more than 96 million members, making it the List of largest political parties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (; born 21 February 1952), better known by his penname Jia Pingwa (), is one of China's most popular authors of novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. His best-known novels include ''Ruined City'', which was banned by the State Publishing Administration for over 17 years for its explicit sexual content, and '' Qin Opera'', winner of the 2009 Mao Dun Literature Prize. Early life and teen years Born in Dihua () Village, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi in 1952, only three years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, as the son of a school teacher, Jia Yanchun (), Jia had an early role model for his later decision to become a writer. Due to a shortage of qualified teachers in Shaanxi at the time, however, Jia's father was often away from home and so he spent much of his early childhood with his mother, Zhou Xiao'e (). With the advent of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Jia Yanchun was accused of being a counter-revolutionary and he spent the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Wei (author)
Zhang Wei (; born 7 November 1956) is a Chinese author. He was born in Longkou, Yantai, which is located in the north of the Shandong Peninsula. He graduated from the Chinese Department at Yantai Normal College in 1980. Three years later, he became a member of China Writers Association, an organization for which he has served as chairman and deputy chairman of the Shandong branch. He is best known for his novels ''The Ancient Ship'' and '' September's Fable''. In 2011 Zhang won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the highest national literary award, for ''On the Plateau'', a 10-volume work that took a decade to write. Works *''The Ancient Ship ''The Ancient Ship'' () is a Chinese novel by Zhang Wei, first published in 1987. The novel spans four decades of Chinese history beginning with the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, then difficult periods of land reform, as well as fam ...'' 《古船》(1987) *''September's Fable'' 《九月寓言》(2007) *''Seven Kinds of Mushroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Yan
Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel '' Red Sorghum'', the first two parts of which were adapted as the Golden Bear-winning film '' Red Sorghum'' (1988). He won the 2005 International Nonino Prize in Italy. In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Early life Mo Yan was born in February of 1955 into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Kangkang
Zhang Kangkang (born as Zhang Kangmei, July 3, 1950, Hangzhou) is a Chinese female writer. Background Zhang was born into a family of Communist intellectuals. Her first name ''Kang-Kang'' means "resistance-resistance." She belongs to a generation affected by the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Kangkang was among the few young people sent to the remote countryside to be "re-educated by the poor and lower-middle class peasants." Her family was regarded as "peasants of a new type with a socialist consciousness." At the age of 19, Kangkang was sent to the Great Northern Wilderness deep in Manchuria, where she faced a life marked by deprivation and abuse by the party cadres assigned to re-educate the new arrivals. She returned to the city eight years later after the death of Mao Zedong and was allowed to resume her studies. In 1979, Kangkang published her first work, ''The Right to Love''. The book reflects on freedom and resistance against an oppressor. She is married to a fellow writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi (born 6 March 1954) is a Chinese writer, vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006, and professor in Chinese Literature at Fudan University since 2004. Wang widely write novels, novellas, short stories and essays with diverse themes and topics. The majority of her works are set in Shanghai, where she lived and worked for the majority of her life. Wang also regularly writes about the countryside in Anhui, where she was " sent down" during the Cultural Revolution. Her works have been translated into English, German and French, and studied as zhiqing (educated youth), xungen (roots-searching), Haipai (Shanghai style), and dushi (urban, cosmopolitan) literature. Early life Wang was born in Nanjing in 1954, but moved to Shanghai with her mother when she was a year old. Under the influence of her parents, she liked literature very much in childhood. After the Cultural Revolution, her parents were sent to labor camps. She read a large number of foreign works, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Heng (writer)
Liu Heng (; born in May, 1954) is a Chinese writer. He is generally seen as a realist writer. He became a professional writer in the 1970s after having worked as a peasant farmer, a factory worker and a soldier, classes which have served as fodder for his stories and, not coincidentally, classes which Mao Zedong promoted as the audience for literature in his 194Talks At The Yenan Forum On Literature And Art "Dogshit Food" won the 1985-86 best short story award. "Fuxi Fuxi" won him the national Prize for Best Novelettes in 1987, and was the basis for the film ''Ju Dou''. His novel "Hēi de xuě" (Black Snow; 黑的雪), about the problems faced by a young juvenile delinquent upon his release from prison, was made into a feature film, and "Pínzuǐ Zhāng Dàmín dē xìngfú shēnghuó" (The Happy Life of Chatter-box Zhang Damin;) has been made into a television series in the same name. Early life Liu Heng was born in May, 1954 in Beijing. Liu's native place is Mentougou Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Ping (writer)
Zhang Ping (; born November 1953) is a Chinese novelist and politician who served as Vice Governor of Shanxi between January 2008 and January 2013. Zhang served as vice president of the China Democratic League and vice president of China Writers Association between 2002 and 2008. Zhang was a member of the 9th, 10th, 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Biography Zhang was born in Xinjiang County, Shanxi in November 1953. He entered Shanxi Normal University in 1978, majoring in Chinese language at the Department of Chinese Language and Culture, where he graduated in 1982. Zhang started to publish works in 1981. Zhang joined the China Writers Association in 1985. From 1982 to 1986, Zhang worked in ''Pingyang Literature and Art'' () as an editor. From 2002 to 2008, Zhang served as vice president of the China Democratic League, and vice president of the China Writers Association China Writers Association or Chinese Writers Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Zhongshi
Chen Zhongshi (; 3 August 1942 – 29 April 2016) was a Chinese author. He started writing prose in 1965 and finished his magnum opus ''White Deer Plain'' in 1993 (for which he won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997). In 1979, he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association (which he at one point served as the association's vice chairman). Biography Chen was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi on 3 August 1942. After graduating from No. 34 High School of Xi'an in 1962, he got a teaching job in primary school and, after two years, became a senior high school teacher. In 1966, Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party. He was interested in literature and soon began devoting himself to a writing career. Chen became the vice director of Culture Bureau of Baqiao District Baqiao District () is one of 11 districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. The district borders Gaoling District to the north, Lintong District to the northeast, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Yazhou
Huang Yazhou (; born 1949) is a Chinese novelist, poet and screenwriter. He is now a member of Chinese Communist Party and the president of Zhejiang Writers Association. Biography Huang was born in 1949 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with his ancestral hometown in Xiaoshan District, where was He Zhizhang's hometown. Huang primarily studied at Yinmajingxiang School (). When he was a senior high school student, he wrote a play ''Wang Banxian'' () and acted it out by himself. When the Down to the Countryside Movement was launched by Mao Zedong, Huang became a soldier in Zhejiang Production and Construction Corps, and he published his Novella ''Intersection'' () and a collection of poems, ''The Thick Grove'' (). In 1975, Huang was assigned to a factory in Tongxiang County as an official, his short story ''The Story of River Water and Well Water'' () won 1st Zhejiang Excellent Children's Literature Award. In 1979, his drama ''The Investigator's Love'' () was edited and filmed by Xi'an Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
