Deng Youmei

Deng Youmei ( Chinese  邓友梅 , Pinyin Dèng Yǒuméi ; born March 1, 1931 in Tianjin, Hebei Province ) is a Chinese writer.

Life

The Deng Youmeis family were a rural working class family from Pingyuan County, Shandong Province, China . As a child he was a courier in the 8th Army led by the Chinese Communist Party . Deng Youmei was forced to do forced labor in Japan . This was followed by a short school visit and cultural work in the Chinese People's Liberation Army . He then worked as a journalist and was an employee of the artists' association. In 1952 he joined the Chinese Communist Party. Until 1955 he studied at the Literature Institute of the Writers' Union.

He was one of the writers of village stories around Sun Li . His story Zai xianya shang from 1956 caused quite a stir and in 1957 it was condemned as a "right element". He was detained in a re-education camp . From 1962 he was active in the cultural field in the steel city of Anshan . He was further persecuted during the Cultural Revolution . In 1976 he returned to Beijing and worked there as a freelance writer. Deng Youmei is one of the authors of the Xungen literature that emerged in the 1980s .

Works (selection)

• Zai xianya shang , 1956
• Women de junzhang , 1978
• Zhuigan duiwu de nübing , 1979
• Well wu , 1982
• Gebitan , 1983

literature

• Volker Klöpsch , Eva Müller , Lexicon of Chinese Literature , CH Beck 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-52214-7 , page 65.
• 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. Deng is the family name here, Youmei is the first name.