Tang Haoming (; born October 1946), also known as Deng Yunsheng (), is a Chinese novelist. He is best known for writing

biographical novel The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fiction ...

s of

Zeng Guofan Zeng Guofan, Marquis Yiyong (; 26 November 1811 – 12 March 1872), birth name Zeng Zicheng, courtesy name Bohan, was a Chinese statesman and military general of the late Qing dynasty. He is best known for raising and organizing the Xiang A ...

Zhang Zhidong Zhang Zhidong () (4 September 18375 October 1909) was a Chinese politician who lived during the late Qing dynasty. Along with Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Zhidong was one of the four most famous officials of the late Qing ...

, and Yang Du. He is now the vice president of Hunan Writers Association.

Biography

Tang was born in 1946 in

Hengyang Hengyang (; ) is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, whom 1,290,715 ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

, which was also the hometown of Wang Fuzhi. His father Tang Zhenchu (;1914–1999) was a member of the Central Committee of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

and official in the National Government. His mother named Wang Dehui (). His elder brother Tang Yiming (; born 1942) is a scholar on Wei and Jin dynasties literature who graduated from

Wuhan University Wuhan University (WHU; ) is a public research university in Wuhan, Hubei. The university is sponsored by the Ministry of Education. Wuhan university was founded as one of the four elite universities in the early republican period of China and i ...

and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. His elder sister Tang Shuming () died of

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during the Land Reform Movement in the 1950s. In 1949, before moving to Taiwan, Tang's parents entrusted their children to Tang Zhenchu's elder brother Tang Xuanzu (). In the Land Reform Movement, Tang Xuanzu was brought to be persecuted because he was a landlord. Shortly after, Tang Haoming was adopted by Deng Xianhong (), a hairdresser of Hengyang No. 2 Middle School, and renamed Deng Yunsheng (). He was a graduate student in water conservancy at the Central China College of Water Conservancy. After graduation, he worked in a farm and hydropower station as a technician. In 1966, the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

was launched by

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

, at this time, he read the ''

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''. With the resumption of the University Entrance Examination in 1977, he was accepted to the

Central China Normal University Central China Normal University (CCNU) or Huazhong Normal University (), located in Luonan Subdistrict, Hongshan District in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, is a comprehensive university directly under the administration of the Chinese Mini ...

and graduated in 1982. After graduation, he worked in Yuelu Publishing House as an editor. In 1986, Tang became famous for his novel, ''Zeng Guofan''. In 2002, Tang published the novel ''Zhang Zhidong''. He no longer writes, so this book has become his last novel. He became president of Hunan Writers Association in September 2004, and was re-elected in June 2011.

Works

* ''Zeng Guofan'' () * ''Yang Du'' () * ''Zhang Zhidong'' () * *

Awards

* 1st National Young and Middle-aged Excellent Editor (1994) * 3rd National Book Award (1997) * Excellent Novel Prize (1998) * 1st Yao Xueyin Historical Novel Prize (2003)

References

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