Ouyang Shan

Ouyang Shan ( Chinese  欧阳山 , actually Yang Fengqi , born December 1908 in Jingzhou , Hunan Province , † September 26, 2000 in Canton ) was a Chinese writer.

Life

Ouyang Shan was born to a minor employee. He attended a teacher training college in Canton. Since 1924 he worked as a writer and joined in Shanghai that of the late 1920s, Guo Moruo and Lu Xun supported League of leftist writers on. He was the editor of literary magazines and was committed to the inclusion of colloquial language in Chinese literature. After the war against Japan began, he lived in the areas held by China. In 1940 he joined the Chinese Communist Party . In 1941 he went to Yan . Here he wrote the novel Gao Ganda . In the early 1960s, he was accused of damaging the portrayal of proletarian heroes through humanism in his works . In his works he showed people in their contradictions and avoided the official hero image. During the Cultural Revolution , he was persecuted and imprisoned in a camp. After his release in 1974, he became chairman of the Sichuan Province Writers' Association in 1979 .

He wrote novels and short stories. In the story Chenggongzhe de bei'ai he deals with emigrated intellectuals and their sensitivities.

Works (selection)

• Zhuchi be tiechui , novel, 1931
• Qingnian nannü , short story, 1936
• Shibai de shibaizhe , short stories, 1937
• Gao Ganda , novel, 1946
• Novels Yidai fengliu
  • Sanjia xiang , novel, 1959
  • Kudou , Roman, 1962
  • Liu an hua ming , novel, 1981
  • Shengdi , Roman, 1983
  • Wan nian chun , novel, 1985
• Chenggongzhe de bei'ai , short story, 1979

literature

• Volker Klöpsch , Eva Müller , Lexicon of Chinese Literature , CH Beck 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-52214-7 , page 239.
• Editors: Irmtraud Fessen-Henjes, Fritz Gruner, Eva Müller, Biographical Notes Ouyang Shan in Explorations - 16 Chinese Narrators , Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, page 335 f.

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