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Listen to the story of lifelong love that year-old Rao Pingru celebrated in his graphic novel, Our Story. Podcast: Play in new window. One of the 18th students of Whampoa Military Academy, he participated in the War of Resistance and Civil War, and his life was full of frustrations. At the age of 87, Mr. After that, for half a year, he had nothing to do with his grief. Finally he decided to draw their story.

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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. After the dinner, Zheng requested Ding to drop her off at Nanjing Road , Shanghai's famous shopping street. When the car drove by the Siberia Fur Company, Zheng said she wanted to buy a fur coat and asked him to help her choose one.

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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. If his words describe, his paintings animate, and provide a rich visual backdrop to the narrative. Stylistically, his paintings are naive and cartoon-like, while a palette of diluted yellows and purples are frequently used to colour physical spaces and backgrounds. Every story is true. All these pictures of the past came from my head. Like many of that era, Pingru transitioned to adulthood while at war.

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 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.

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Contents move to sidebar hide. It was a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. In February , Zheng was secretly executed near the Zhongshan Road in western Shanghai , at the age of Chinese socialite and spy. He felt that death was something he could not change, but when he drew pictures, people could still exist. Zheng was involved in a plot to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei. Listen to Podcast. While inside the store, Ding grew suspicious when he saw the men outside, and abruptly ran across the street to his car. To memorialize the love of his life, he began illustrating scenes of their life together and apart. Humanism Memorial Museum. 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. 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. Twentieth-Century China. Retrieved 13 July

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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. Apple Daily. And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint. Wang held Zheng Pingru as a hostage and tried to coerce her father to become the Minister of Justice for his regime, but he refused as well. 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. China Times in Chinese Taiwan. Follow us on WeChat! He also made illustrations of difficult days such as the twenty-two years they spent apart. We see Pingru and Meitang through the decades, through both poverty and good fortune, and as they grow so too does China: the nation undergoing political turmoil and seismic cultural change. Authority control databases. Connect with us Stay tuned for our news After that, for half a year, he had nothing to do with his grief. Amazon Blackwells Bookshop. 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.