Feng Jicai () is a contemporary Chinese author, artist and cultural scholar.
Biography
Born in
Tianjin
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in 1942 to a family originally from
Ningbo
Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...
,
Zhejiang province
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, Feng rose to prominence as a pioneer of the
Scar Literature
Scar literature or literature of the wounded () is a genre of Chinese literature which emerged in the late 1970s during the "Boluan Fanzheng" period, soon after the death of Mao Zedong, portraying the sufferings of cadres and intellectuals du ...
movement that emerged after the
Cultural Revolution
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.
He has published close to one hundred literary works that span a number of different topics, styles and genres. His major works include ''Ah!'', ''The Carved Pipe'', ''The Tall Woman and'' ''Her Short Husband'', ''The Miraculous Pigtail'', ''Three Inch Golden Lotus'', ''Zebra Finches'', ''Ten Years of Madness'': ''Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution'', and ''Extraordinary People in Our Ordinary World''.
His work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese; internationally, more than forty of his literary works have been published.
Feng is also a cultural scholar. He proposed and directed the Project to Save Chinese Folk Cultural Heritages, and over the last two decades he has campaigned to preserve urban culture and traditional villages.
Feng is currently an honorary member of the Literature and Arts Association, honorary president of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, and an adviser to the
State Council State Council may refer to:
Government
* State Council of the Republic of Korea, the national cabinet of South Korea, headed by the President
* State Council of the People's Republic of China, the national cabinet and chief administrative auth ...
. He is also dean, professor and PhD supervisor at the Feng Jicai Institute of Literature and Art, Tianjin University, vice chair of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Evaluation Group, and director of the China Traditional Village Protection Expert Committee. He used to be vice chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy Central Committee, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association, member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee, and chairman of Tianjin Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
In 2013, Feng won the 22nd Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award.
In 2018, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles honoured Feng and
Wu Bing'an with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Folk Art and Literature.
Translated works (English)
* ''Chrysanthemums and Other Stories'' (1985)
* ''The Miraculous Pigtail'' (1987)
* ''Voices from the Whirlwind'' (1991)
* ''Three Inch Golden Lotus'' (1994)
* ''Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom'' (1995)
* ''Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution'' (1996)
* ''Selected Stories by Feng Jicai'' (1999)
* ''Faces in the Crowd: 36 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin'' (2019)
* ''A Looking-Glass World'' (2021)
* ''From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist
Han Meilin
Han Meilin (; born December 26, 1936 in Jinan, ShandongHanban.edu.Hanban.edu" ''Profile of the artist.'' Retrieved on 2008-04-27.Xinhuanet." ''韓美林作品選(圖).'' Retrieved on 2008-04-27.) is a Chinese artist most recognized today for his c ...
from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day'' (2023)
References
External links
"Feng Jicai: Safeguarding Folk Culture"@ the
Internet Archive
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Biography@ China Vitae
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1942 births
Living people
Historians from Tianjin
People's Republic of China historians
International Writing Program alumni
Chinese male short story writers
20th-century Chinese short story writers
20th-century Chinese male writers
21st-century Chinese short story writers
Writers from Tianjin
People's Republic of China short story writers
Short story writers from Tianjin