Cong Weixi

Cong Weixi was born on 7 April 1933 in Zunhua County, in Hebei. After the Beijing normal school, he became in 1953 a reporter at the Beijing ribao and published his first story collections. Labelled a rightist in 1957, in 1959 according to Jiemian, he spent some twenty years in labour re-education camps, around Beijing and then in Shanxi, on farms, in brickworks and in mines. Rehabilitated in 1978 or 1979, he later headed the Zuojia publishing house, a post he had to leave after 1989. He died in Beijing on 29 October 2019.

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• Novel大牆下的紅玉蘭Cong Weixi · 1979not translated into EnglishLiterature