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Pingru to the story of lifelong love that year-old Rao Pingru celebrated in his graphic novel, Our Story, pingru. Podcast: Play in new window.

Skip to Content Home Rao Pingru. Books Biography. Select a format: Hardback Ebook. Amazon Blackwells Bookshop. A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.

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She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime , a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang 's novella Lust, Caution , which was later adapted into the eponymous film by Ang Lee. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. She became a well-known socialite and appeared on the cover of the popular pictorial The Young Companion Liangyou in Although her family was half-Japanese, they were strongly opposed to Japan's aggression toward China. When Japan invaded Manchuria in and attacked Shanghai in , Zheng and her siblings joined anti-Japanese protests. When Japan invaded China in and occupied Shanghai following the Battle of Shanghai , Zheng secretly joined the resistance movement and became an underground Kuomintang Nationalist spy. Zheng was involved in a plot to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei. As Ding had formerly served as the principal of Zheng's secondary school, she was tasked with seducing him and luring him into a trap. On 10 December , Zheng invited Ding back to her home at the end of a date where assassins waited inside, but Ding refused her invitation and the plan failed. On 21 December , Zheng accompanied Ding to dinner at his friend's house.

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Our Story is a masterpiece of memory. At the age of eighty-eight, following the death of his partner Meitang, Rao Pingru began to paint. Set during the political upheavals of the 20th century in China , Pingru — who has no previous books to his name — tells a story that is both entirely his own and indeed representative of a whole generation. But his life was anything but ordinary, with a plot that feels inherently novelistic, shaped by the smallest of margins, the closest of calls. The challenge for Pingru was not to turn his life into a novel, but to turn his novelistic story into a life, a life that feels convincing, relatable, lived.

Pingru

She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime , a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang 's novella Lust, Caution , which was later adapted into the eponymous film by Ang Lee. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. She became a well-known socialite and appeared on the cover of the popular pictorial The Young Companion Liangyou in

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Twentieth-Century China. After that, for half a year, he had nothing to do with his grief. Listen to the story of lifelong love that year-old Rao Pingru celebrated in his graphic novel, Our Story. He visited home once per year to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and his love for Meitang never diminished. Tools Tools. At the age of 87, Mr. United States. ISSN In this Chinese name , the family name is Zheng. Download as PDF Printable version. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. Feminist Formations. So he began to write and draw the stories from the childhood of Meitang. Wed, Mar 20, And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint.

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Wang Jingwei's wife Chen Bijun and others attempted to persuade Zheng to join the Wang Jingwei regime, but she refused. China Times in Chinese Taiwan. United States. Powered by Metric Design Studio. Zheng was involved in a plot to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei. Authority control databases. S2CID Chinese socialite and spy. Humanism Memorial Museum. Atlas Obscura. In February , Zheng was secretly executed near the Zhongshan Road in western Shanghai , at the age of At the age of 87, Mr. Wikimedia Commons. After that, for half a year, he had nothing to do with his grief.