The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century by Yunte Huang

Author:Yunte Huang [Huang, Yunte]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-02-01T07:00:00+00:00

AI QING

(1910–1996)

Born Jiang Haicheng into a landlord family in Zhejiang, Ai Qing was brought up, as a fortune-teller suggested, by a peasant woman in order to avoid bad karma. Trained to be an artist, he went to France in 1929 to study painting. There he was influenced by French Symbolist poets and turned to writing. Returning to China in 1932, he joined the League of Left-Wing Writers. The following year he was arrested by the Nationalist regime for his radical politics, and in jail he composed his best-known poem, “Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse” (1933), a loving tribute to the working class as represented by the peasant woman who had raised him. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the resistance movement and the Communist cause. Like most free thinkers of his generation, he was condemned in 1957 as a “Rightist” and exiled to remote regions for twenty years. In 1979 he was rehabilitated and allowed to write and publish. A major poet of twentieth century China, Ai was also the father of Ai Weiwei, the famous Chinese artist whose provocative work has made him a target of government censorship in recent years.

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