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Zhang Yihe
Chinese author · China · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 84
Zhang Yihe is a Chinese writer, memoirist, and scholar of Peking opera and traditional Chinese theatre. She is best known for her vivid, memoir-style accounts of Chinese intellectuals and artists who suffered during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in the 1950s and the Cultural Revolution.
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As the daughter of prominent democratic politician and "Number One Rightist" Zhang Bojun, she herself was imprisoned for ten years during the Cultural Revolution. She is a graduate of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. She is the author of a memoir of mid-twentieth century intellectuals, politicians and literati, titled The Past is Not Like Smoke, and of Lingren Wangshi, a history of Peking opera stars. Her nonfiction works have been repeatedly banned in mainland China, and she has become a prominent critic of literary censorship.
