China Seminar

BAI Hua

BAI Hua

8 December 1988

Contemporary Writers and Writing in China

The seminar will hear from an eminent author, Bai Hua, on themes related to contemporary writers and writings in China. The following sketch should point to an interesting session. Bai Hua’s life and career trace in microcosm the vicissitudes and triumphs of the artist in contemporary China. His father was buried alive by the Japanese army when Bai Hua was a boy. As a schoolboy he hid from the Japanese and worked for a living.