Zhang Eiling was one of the few intellectual women who had a clear understanding of the Chinese Communist Party half a century ago, and as one netizen who commemorated her wrote, “For many of us, Zhang Eiling was a light ahead.”
The year 2020 marks the centennial of Eileen Chang’s birth, and on the Internet, “What would Eileen Chang have written if she had lived in 2020?” It is a popular topic for fans to memorialize the talented woman. The remembrance of the legendary talent also triggered deep thoughts on the different fates of the famous women of the Red Dynasty in that era.
“Already in the midst of destruction, there is still more destruction to come.”
Eileen Chang had an illustrious background: her grandfather, Zhang Perun, and her grandmother, Li Ju-couple, the eldest daughter of the Northern Minister Li Hongzhang. Since her childhood, she was nurtured by traditional Culture and was very talented. By the 1940s, she had become a popular female Writer in Shanghai.
Zhang Eiling was instinctively wary of and resistant to the left-wing communist ideology, and she once described her dark criticism of the May Fourth Movement as “turning every voice into its own”. At the beginning of the Chinese Communist regime, out of her attachment to her homeland, Zhang Eiling did not leave the mainland and became the target of the Communist unification war. Under the bidding of the red “new regime”, Zhang Eiling wrote two “proletarian” novels, Eighteen Springs and Xiao Ai, under the suspicion that the plot and ending of the novels were in line with the main theme of the early Communist Party, but the writer still boldly exposes in the books The writer still boldly exposes: “Politics determines everything. If you don’t care about politics, politics will come to you.”
In 1950, the CCP arranged for Zhang Eiling to accompany a Shanghai literary delegation to the rural areas of northern Jiangsu to participate in a two-month land reform movement and experience revolutionary Life. What she saw and heard was so painful that she felt she could not “write about heroes” or “glorify the land reform”, “what is generally called the era She felt that she could not “write about heroes” or “glorify the land reform,” and that “I cannot write works of the ‘monument’ type that are generally referred to as the times, and I do not intend to try.”
She then changed from being a spectator of the revolution to being a revolutionary breakaway. She could no longer stand the so-called “self-Education” and “intellectual ideological reform” of the Chinese Communist Party, and in July 1952, at the age of 32, Zhang Eiling fled the mainland and left for Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Zhang Eiling wrote two novels that are still banned by the Chinese Communist Party, Yangge and Red Earth Love.
Using the violent land reform, the bloody “Three Rebellions” campaign and the Korean War as the backdrop, the author depicts the torture and mind control of the Chinese people and the extreme destruction of humanity and human rights by the Communist Party’s totalitarian rule. In the novels, Eileen Chang makes a very forward-looking prophecy about the Chinese Communist Party. She writes, “The times are rushed, already in destruction, with greater destruction to come.”
Eileen Chang later settled in the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s, Eileen Chang became popular again in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the overseas Chinese world. In the 1980s, the Chinese Communist Party intended to invite her back to visit China, but Eileen Chang declined. In 1995, Eileen Chang died in the United States after a long illness.
Guan Lu, a woman writer who was ravaged by the Party all her life
Guan Lu, who is known as one of the “Four Talented Women of the Republic” along with Pan Liudai, Zhang Eiling and Su Qing, was a household name in the Republic of China. If she had not been cheated by the Chinese Communist Party, she might have become a famous female writer. Guan Lu’s father was a Manchu scholar, and she and her sister grew up reading and writing, and became prominent in the literary world while studying at Shanghai Central University. She later joined the Left Wing Writers’ Union and the Chinese Communist Party.
In the 1930s, Guan Lu was ordered by the Chinese Communist Party and Pan Hannian to spy for The Japanese secret services. The Chinese Communist Party sent Guan Lu to turn Li Shiqun and Ding Mucun against the Japanese, not to resist the Japanese, but to draw Li and Ding closer. And from the beginning, Guan Lu did not know that Li and Ding were already in contact with the Chinese Communist Party. After the Japanese surrender, beginning in 1946, Guan Lu was constantly imprisoned and censored by the CCP, and was called a traitor for 36 years. Guan Lu repeatedly asked the CCP to disclose her identity as an underground member, but was refused by the CCP.
Pan Hannian once told Guan Lu, “If someone says you are a traitor in the future, you can’t defend yourself; if you do, it will be bad.” Guan Lu chose to obey the organization, “I will not defend.” The Chinese Communist diplomat Wang Bingnan once expressed his love for Guan Lu, but when Guan Lu ended his career as an infiltrator, the CCP, fearing that Wang Bingnan would leak Li Shiqun’s secret relationship with the CCP to Guan Lu, ordered Wang to break up with Guan Lu. In the face of the CCP’s revolutionary needs, humanity was nothing more than a handful of dust that could be crushed at will.
From 1955, Guan Lu was imprisoned for three years and was repeatedly asked to explain his career as a traitor. In 1967, at the age of 60, Guan Lu was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison for eight years. In 1982, after being rehabilitated, Guan Lu committed suicide. Before his death, Guan Lu was lonely, already paralyzed in bed, lying in a 10-square-meter hut, unable to hold a pen in his entire hand.
Repentant father scolded: “disloyalty, injustice, two Family slaves”
In 1946, the Communist Party negotiations broke down, the Chinese Communist Party ordered Fu Zuoyi’s daughter Fu Dongju to steal all the confidential documents in her father’s safe. Fu Dongju used a few pieces of chocolate to coax her five-year-old brother to get the key to the safe, and Fu Dongju photographed the most important military materials and passed them to the Communist Party.
Fu Zuoyi had no illusions about the Communist Party, which he said publicly would bring cruelty, terror and tyranny. Because of Fu Dongyu’s betrayal, many of Fu Zuoyi’s military operations failed repeatedly. Fu Dongju took the opportunity to dissuade her father from joining the Communist Party and further betrayed information to the Chinese Communist Party. As a result, Fu Zuoyi eventually had to accept the secret peace talks offered by the Chinese Communist Party.
In February 1949, when Fu Zuoyi learned that his daughter had betrayed him, he immediately scolded her for being “disloyal, unrighteous, and a slave of two surnames”.
After 1949, Fu Dongju worked as a reporter for the People’s Daily. During the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party branded her as an “anti-Party” “class dissident,” and she was brutally criticized. When she went to visit her father, Fu Zuoyi, who could not protect himself, said to her, “From now on, don’t come back.” In April 1974, Fu Zuoyi died of illness.
In her later years, Fu Dongju was living in poverty, and her meager pension almost made it impossible for her to afford medical care and hospitalization. The Chinese Communist Party did not let her enjoy the treatment of high cadre ward, Fu Dongju can only live in 400 yuan per day “special needs ward”. The two nurses in the “special needs ward” cost 10,000 yuan a month, which Fu could not afford to pay. Some years ago, the public housing reform, private individuals can pay a nominal amount of money to buy, she could not get. The State Council Administration of Institutional Affairs has repeatedly pressed her to pay for the housing, and Fu Zuoyi had handed over a number of private properties, but the Chinese Communist Party played deaf and dumb.
In her later years, Fu Dongju said that she could slowly understand what her father had done back then. In 2007, Fu Dongju passed away.
Conclusion
In traditional Chinese culture, there are touching stories of Mu Guiying and Mulan’s righteousness in the army for her father, which are the best stories of women. The Chinese Communist Party subverts humanity with party spirit, turning women with family backgrounds and talents into political tools and making them sell their morality and conscience in lies.
Wei Junyi, the former director of the People’s Literature Publishing House, once told her daughter that she was “ready to sacrifice everything when she joined the revolution, but she didn’t expect to sacrifice her conscience as well.
I hope more Chinese people will wake up from the deception of the Chinese Communist Party in Time.
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