Wang Meng

Wang Meng was born in Beijing on 15 October 1934, into a family originally from Nanpi, in Hebei. He joined the Communist Party in 1948 and, after 1949, worked for the Youth League. A story of 1956 that denounced bureaucracy led to his being classed as a rightist in 1957; sent to Xinjiang, in 1963 according to Chinawriter, he learned Uyghur there and translated works from it. Rehabilitated in 1979, he became Minister of Culture in 1986 and lost that post after the Tiananmen crackdown, according to Renditions.

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• NovelBolshevik Salute布禮Wang Meng · 1979Literature