Nie Gannu
Essayist and poet
Nie Gannu (Chinese: 聂绀弩; 1903–1986) was a Chinese essayist, and a political figure. He was born in Jingshan County, Hubei province in 1903. He studied at Huangpu Military School.
After he graduated from Huangpu military School, he continued studying in Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. It is a school other famous political figures like Deng Xiaoping, JiangJingguo also attended. In 1927 he returned to China, and joined the League of Left-Wing Writers. During the Sino-Japanese War, Nie Gannu wrote Yecao《野草》. In 1958, Nie Gannu as well as other famous poets, and senior revolutionist were expelled to the Great Northern Wilderness (北大荒). It was also called a "farm", it was a labour camp in the wilderness where the Chinese government sent the revolutionist or poets who 'went against the will of the government'. They were monitored, and forced to work at.
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