Chen Guokai

Chen Guokai ( Chinese  陈国凯 , Pinyin Chén Guókǎi ; born May 15, 1938 in Wuhan County, Guangdong Province ; † May 16, 2014 ) was a Chinese writer.

Life

After 1958, Chen worked as a worker and propagandist in a nitrogen fertilizer factory in Canton . At the beginning of the 1960s he began to work literarily. He published short stories and short stories. He became known with the short story Wo yinggai zenmo ban published in 1979 , in which he addressed crimes during the Cultural Revolution . In the 1980s he devoted himself mainly to problems of the Chinese present in the Chinese factory environment and increasingly used satirical means.

Works (selection)

• Buzhang xiaqi , 1962
• Xinlaide tushuguanliyuan , 1972
• Wo yinggai zenmo ban , 1979
• Chechuang huanhou , 1980
• Lu , 1982
• Pingchang de yi tian , 1983
• Yangcheng yi ye , Collection, 1980
• Haoren A Tong , 1984

literature

• Volker Klöpsch , Eva Müller , Lexicon of Chinese Literature , CH Beck 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-52214-7 , page 55.
• Editors: Irmtraud Fessen-Henjes, Fritz Gruner, Eva Müller, Biographical Notes Chen Guokai in Explorations - 16 Chinese Narrators , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, page 333.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Guokai is the first name.