Bing Xin
Bing Xin (1900-1999) ...
General Introduction
- Bing xin is a well-known Chinese woman writer, whose true name is Xie Wanying.
- Bing Xin’s prose have wide range of topics ,which is very profound. She through her own experiences and delicate description, reflected the image of some side about unrest complex social life in China those day vividly. In Bing Xin's prose , we can see the semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China, imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat comprador class oppressed and ravaged Chinese people so badly and also the people's heroes’ resist.
Meanwhile, Bing Xin prose theme also extends to history, geography, culture, customs, and people in many countries of the world suffering and struggle, the reader can derive a wealth of international knowledge.
- Bing Bing Xin prose embodies its own unique style emphasized. Bing Xin good at capturing life in fragments, weaving in their emotions among the waves, with a keen eye and fine emotions, to trigger internal and external affection was dissolved together, combining emotion scene, scenes, to readers lofty beauty. Bing Xin prose connotation attaches great importance to the beauty. Her prose novel conception just like the idea of dexterity.
During The Cultural Revolution
- After the start of “the Cultural Revolution", Bing Xin was targeted. In 1970, she was forced to labor until the year 1971. Then she was appointed to translate some foreign masterpiece with others.
Enduring Suffering Interrogation
- At that time ,Bing XIn was often asked by the Red Guard like this:
Who did you get in touch with? When? Where? Why? How? Have you worked with the enemies from Japan or the USA? Confess your crime!
Never Giving In
- However, whatever the Red Guard questioned her or even threatened her ,Bing Xin always responsed like this:" I have nothing to confess."
Works About The Cultrual Revolution
- It was onced believed that Bing Xin's works about "the Cultural Revolution" include only one poem，two essays and two memorial articles.In fact they are more than those, including two masterpiece. One is called “To my family”, composed of 28 envelopes.
Daily Writings During The Cultural Revolution
- During "the Cultural Revolution", Bing Xin insisted using the greetings when writing envelopes like "My dear"“Missing you very much”instead of “Long live Chairman Mao”or”Comrade”