Red Crag

First edition

Red Crag or Red Rock (Chinese: 红岩; pinyin: Hóngyán) was a 1961 novel based partly on fact by Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, who were former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan. It was set in Chongqing during the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and featured underground communist agents under the command of Zhou Enlai fighting an espionage battle against the Kuomintang.

The novel contained a highly negative portrayal for the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, as responsible for the running prisons jailing communists and other political dissidents, although in reality they were actually run by the KMT secret police service BIS, and had no American involvement.[1][2] The novel features Jiang Zhuyun, the real life counterpart of Sister Jiang.

Xujun Eberlein wrote in The Atlantic that "The novel played a critical role in the heroism culture of the Mao era."[3]

The book includes a poem that was attributed to, but was not written by, Chen Ran.[3] The modern Beijing opera Hua Ziliang is based on the novel.

References

  1. ↑ 郑永明 (2009-08-17). "再现血雨腥风史 培育革命后来人 ——红岩档案资料的研究与开发". 中国档案报 国家档案局. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "文艺作品中与历史上的中美合作所真相". Netease. 2009-06-08. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 Eberlein, Eberlein. "Another Kind of American History in Chongqing, 1: Prologue" (Archive). The Atlantic. January 31, 2011. Retrieved on December 20, 2015.


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