Wang Zengqi

Wang Zengqi was born on 5 March 1920 in Gaoyou, in Jiangsu. He entered the Southwest Associated University in Kunming in 1939, where he studied under Shen Congwen, whom he regarded as his teacher all his life. After 1949 he worked in Beijing as an editor of literary journals. Labelled a rightist in 1958, he was sent to work in Zhangjiakou, then joined the Beijing opera troupe in the early 1960s and was one of the main authors of the model opera Shajiabang. He returned to fiction in 1980 and died in Beijing on 16 May 1997.

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• Short stories邂逅集Wang Zengqi · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature