Jiang Guanqi ( Chinese р 蒋光慈 , pinyin : Jiāng Guāngcí ; 1901 , Anhui Province - June 30, 1931 , Shanghai ) is a Chinese novelist, poet , journalist and literary critic . One of the most famous communist writers.
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The son of a merchant from Anhui Province. Participated in the May Fourth movement (See May Fourth Movement) (1919). He went to Moscow in 1921 to study political economy at the Communist University of the Workers of the East , and a year later he joined the Chinese Communist Party . In 1924, he returned to China to play a key role in promoting proletarian revolutionary literature, which expressed the needs and moods of the masses at a critical moment in the country's political transformation. Jiang became a member of the Creative Society （创造 社） and the League of Left-Wing Writers. He is the author of poetry collections “New Dreams” (1925), “I grieve for China” (1927), “Lines about the Motherland” (1930).
His first story, The Young Tramp Zhe, published in 1925, tells of a village guy who goes to town in search of a good life, but dies during the uprising. History provides dark social realities and indicates the path of hope for change in the form of a radical revolution.
In 1927, Jiang finished the novel The Sansculot Party, on protests by workers in Shanghai. The title, which emphasizes the inextricable link between poverty and revolution, refers to the Sansculottes of the French Revolution.
Jiang's most complex work, The Suffering of Lisa ( Chinese 丽萨 的 哀怨 ), was published in 1929. The story is told from the point of view of a Russian aristocrat whose romantic dreams collapse with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, who destroyed her privileged lifestyle and sent her and her husband into exile in Shanghai . In Shanghai, poverty forces Lisa to engage in prostitution and, as a result, she dies from syphilis. The purpose of the story is to demonstrate that the future is not in the monarchy, but in communism.
Jiang Guanqi died in 1931 from an illness. A few years after his death, he remained extremely popular: his story “The Moon, which breaks through the clouds,” was reprinted in Shanghai six times during the 1930s. However, then his fame began to fade and today in China itself, almost no one knows about him.
Literature
- Historical dictionary of modern Chinese literature. - S. 78-79.