Rewi Alley

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Rewi Alley

Rewi Alley (Chinese name: 路易 • 艾黎 , Lùyì Àilí , born December 2, 1897 in Springfield , Canterbury ; died December 27, 1987 in Beijing ) was a writer, educator and political activist from New Zealand . He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and has published over sixty books.

Life

Rewi Alley is named after Māori Rewi Maniapoto, who fought against the British during the so-called New Zealand Wars in the 1860s. In 1916, Rewi Alley joined the army and served in France. After the war he failed with his sheep breeding . In 1927, Rewi Alley went to Shanghai , China, and became a firefighter . He traveled around China helping with post-famine relief efforts in 1929. That same year, he adopted a fourteen-year-old Chinese boy, Alan (段 士 谋). He later adopted five other Chinese children.

After a brief visit to New Zealand, Rewi Alley returned to China and became a factory inspector for Shanghai City Council in 1932 . He learned Chinese (first the dialect of Shanghai, later Standard Chinese and Classical Chinese ) and met a number of well-known foreigners: George Hatem , Anna Louise Strong , Agnes Smedley , Edgar Snow and Ruth Weiss . After the invasion of the Japanese army in 1937, Rewi Alley began building cooperatives and raising money abroad to support this project, and founded a school in Shandan .

One of his first known works by Rewi Alley, Yo Banfa! , was distributed at the 1952 Asia-Pacific Peace Conference in Beijing. In 1953 he moved to Beijing. He translated numerous works from Chinese and went on lecture tours abroad. In 1980 he founded the Bailie Vocational School ( Péilí zhíyè dàxué培黎 职业 大学) in Beijing , named after the missionary Joseph Bailie ( Péi Yìlǐ裴 义理, 1860-1935). The cooperative movement initiated by Rewi Alley Indusco or Gung-ho (Chinese Gōng-hé工业è , from Gōngyè hézuòshè zǔzhī Organisation合作社 组织, "Organization for industrial cooperatives"), which had been dissolved in 1952 in the course of collectivization, was shortly before revived his death in 1987.

For the last thirty years of his life he lived in an apartment in the building of the former Italian embassy in Beijing; u lived in the same building a. Anna Louise Strong. It is now a museum.

Works

Poetry

  • Peace Through the Ages, Translations from the Poets of China, 1954
  • The People Speak Out: Translations Of Poems And Songs Of The People Of China, 1954
  • Fragments of Living Peking and Other Poems, 1955
  • The Mistake, 1956
  • Beyond the Withered Oak Ten Thousand Saplings Grow, 1957
  • Human China, 1957
  • Journey to Outer Mongolia: A Diary with Poems, 1957
  • The People Sing, 1958
  • Poems of Protest, 1968
  • Over China's Hills of Blue: Unpublished Poems and New Poems, 1974
  • Today and Tomorrow, 1975
  • Snow over the Pines, 1977
  • The Freshening Breeze, 1977
  • Folk Poems from China's Minorities, 1982
  • Bai Juyi, 1983
  • Light and Shadow along a Great Road - An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry, 1984; ISBN 0-8351-1516-X
  • In Southeast Asia Today, the United States, Vietnam, China
  • Upsurge, Asia and the Pacific
  • What is Sin?
  • Who Is the Enemy
  • Winds of Change

Prose and non-fiction

  • A Highway, and an Old Chinese Doctor: A Story of Travel through Unoccupied China during the War of Resistance, and Some Notes on Chinese Medicine
  • Gung Ho, 1948
  • Leaves from a Sandan Notebook, 1950
  • Yo Banfa! (We Have a Way!), 1952
  • The People Have Strength, 1954/1957
  • Buffalo Boys of Viet-Nam, 1956
  • Land of the Morning Calm: A Diary of Summer Days in Korea, 1956
  • Man Against Flood - A Story of the 1954 Flood on the Yangtse and of the Reconstruction That Followed It, 1956
  • Jump in Vietnam. A Diary of a Journey, 1956
  • Children of the Dawn, Stories of Asian Peasant Children, 1957
  • Peking Opera: An Introduction Through Pictures by Eva Siao and Text by Rewi Alley, 1957; German translation (by Ruth Weiss): The Peking Opera
  • Stories out of China, 1958
  • Sandan: An Adventure in Creative Education, 1959; Reprint ISBN 99912-0-016-9
  • China's hinterland - in the Great Leap Forward, 1961
  • Land and Folk in Kiangsi - a Chinese Province in 1961, 1962
  • Amongst Hills and Streams of Hunan, 1963
  • Our Seven - Their Five - A Fragment from the Story of Gung Ho, 1963
  • For the Children of the Whole World, 1966
  • Chinese Children, 1972
  • Taiwan: A Background Study, 1972/1976
  • Prisoners: Shanghai 1936, 1973
  • The Rebels, 1973
  • Travels in China: 1966–71, 1973
  • Refugees from Viet Nam in China, 1980
  • Six Americans in China, 1985
  • At 90: Memoirs of my China Years, 1986
  • Rewi Alley, An Autobiography, 1987, ISBN 0-477-01350-3 (1986 reprint of the book)
  • Fruition: The Story of George Alwin Hogg
  • The Influence of the Thought of Mao Tse-tung

literature

  • Willis Airey, A Learner in China. A Life of Rewi Alley , Christchurch, Caxton Press & Monthly Review Society, 1970.
  • Rewi Alley. A Collection in Memory , Beijing, New World Press, ISBN 7-80005-321-0 .
  • Geoff Chapple, Rewi Alley of China .
  • Tom Newnham: Rewi: The Story of Rewi Alley , Auckland, Graphic Publications, 1997, ISBN 9780473046941
  • Tom Newnham, Deng Bangzhen: Hands and Minds Together: Rewi Alley's Gung Ho School , Auckland, Graphic Publications, 1988, ISBN 9780959781915
  • Tom Newnham, Wang Zi Gang: Shandan on the Old Silk Road , Auckland, Graphic Publications, 2001, ISBN 9780959781977

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personal data
SURNAME Alley, Rewi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lùyì Àilí 路易 • 艾黎
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand-Chinese author and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1987
Place of death Beijing