Dai Houying

Dai Houying (Chinese: 戴厚英; March 1938 – 25 August 1996) was a Chinese woman novelist.^[1] Her best known work Stones in the Wall 《人啊人》 which tells the story of intellectuals named Zhao Zhenhuan, Sun Yue and He Jingfu in the Cultural Revolution, an event Dai experienced from the perspective of the persecutor, as a red guard. In 1971 she divorced her Red Guard husband and married the poet Wen Jie ([闻捷).^[2]

Dai received her bachelor's degree of Chinese literature from East China Normal University in 1960.

Works

Stones in the Wall 《人啊人》
Death of a Poet 《诗人之死》

References

↑ Lynda G. Adamson World Historical Fiction an Annotated Guide p.363
↑ Mau-sang Ng The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction p.289 "Dai Houying a former Shanghai red guard who personally persecuted well known writers like the poet Wen Jie.."

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[1] Lynda G. Adamson World Historical Fiction an Annotated Guide p.363

[2] Mau-sang Ng The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction p.289 "Dai Houying a former Shanghai red guard who personally persecuted well known writers like the poet Wen Jie.."