Gao Xiaosheng

Gao Xiaosheng ( Chinese  高晓声 , Pinyin Gāo Xiǎoshēng ; born July 8, 1928 in Wujin , Jiangsu Province ; † July 6, 1999 in Wuxi , Jiangsu Province) was a Chinese writer.

Life

Gao Xiaosheng was born the son of a teacher. After graduating from high school, he first studied economics at a private university in Shanghai . He broke off his studies in 1949 and then studied journalism for a year at the Sunan University of Applied Sciences for Media Studies in Wuxi. From 1950 to 1957, he was a cultural officer in the Sunan Region Cultural Bureau and the Jiangsu Provincial Government. From the beginning of the 1950s he was active in literature and wrote short prose . In 1957, he was accepted into the Jiangsu Province Writers' Union and worked full time as a writer. In 1957, he and Lu Wenfu were part of a group of young writers who planned to found an association and magazine called Tansuozhe . He wrote the announcement for the magazine. Gao Xiaosheng was sentenced as a deviator . He was banned from writing and exiled to the country. He lived there as a farmer and was considered missing . It was not until 1979 that he was rehabilitated . He was then a member of the board of the Chinese Writers 'Association and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Province Writers' Association until his death .

In his early works he dealt with the life of peasants after the victory of the Chinese Communist Party . These works are given little attention today. In his stories from 1979 onwards he devoted himself to the realistic representation of rural life in China, using satirical means and being able to fall back on his own experiences. This literary phase is considered to be his heyday.

Works (selection)

• Zoushang , play, 1955, with Ye Zhicheng
• Buxing , 1957
• Li Shunda zao wu , 1979 (German: Li Shunda builds a house )
• Chen Huansheng shang cheng , 1980
• Loudouhu zhu , 1979
• Mangchang de yitian , 1979
• Qianbao , 1980
• Chen Huansheng zhuanye , 1981
• Shui donliu , 1981
• Nijiao , 1983
• Qingtian zai shang , novel, 1991
• Chen Huansheng shang cheng chuguo ji , novel 1992

literature

• Marc Hermann, Biographical Handbook of Chinese Writers: Life and Works , Walter de Gruyter 2011, ISBN 978-3-598-24550-3 , page 67 f.
• Volker Klöpsch , Eva Müller , Lexicon of Chinese Literature , CH Beck 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-52214-7 , page 100 f.
• Editors: Irmtraud Fessen-Henjes, Fritz Gruner, Eva Müller, Biographical Notes Gao Xiaosheng in Explorations - 16 Chinese Narrators , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, page 333 f.

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