Zheng Yi

Zheng Yi 郑义 , pseudonym of Zheng Guangzhao , is a writer Chinese born in 1947 in Chongqing, in the province of the Sichuan.

Wire of a senior official thriving in the maritime trade, Zheng Yi at the time of the Cultural revolution was discriminated because of its origin of class. It led its schooling to the college contiguous to the Université Qinghua, bastion historical of the red Gardes. The repression exerted by those was particularly intense in this establishment. With several comrades, Zheng Yi was severely beaten. A few years later, it will be sent to the countryside to be rehabilitated: it will finish with the mine.

Zheng Yi was the first Chinese writer to denounce openly the misdeeds of the Cultural revolution in its short account entitled the Maple . At the end of the Years 1980, it leaves to inquire into the acts of Cannibalisme perpetrated in the province of the Shanxi. The result of this investigation published under the title of Red Stèles is overpowering for the local authorities, which authorized and instutionnalisèrent with large scales this practice.

Its active implication in the democratic movement of 1989 was worth to him to be placed on black list (cf Manifestations of the place Tiananmen). During three years, he escaped the authorities by changing residence regularly. He finally succeeds in gaining Hong-Kong, from where he exiled himself in America.

With the head of the association of the Chinese writers independent, member of several democratic movements and ecological, it currently lives and writes with the the United States.

Works

the Maple (枫 feng), 1979 (in the course of translation).
a remote Village (远村 yuancun), 1983 (new in French).
Old well (老井 laojing), 1985 (in the course of translation).
red Steles , ED. Blue of China, 1991 (translated by Francoise Lemoine & Anne Auyeung).
Prayer for a stray heart , ED. Blue of China, 2007 (translated by Bernard Bourrit & Zhang Li).

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