death_date birth_date spouse article_title birth_name alma_mater
5 october 1996 25 september 1912 xiao hong duanmu hongliang
 cao jingping tianjin nankai high school tsinghua university
duanmu hongliang

duanmu hongliang -lrb- ; 1912 -- 1996 -rrb- , born cao jingping -lrb- -rrb- , is a chinese author whose works were prominent during the second sino-japanese war and for whom the land and environment were pivotal fictional elements .
he was born in changtu county , liaoning and died in beijing on october 5 , 1996 , at the age of 84 .
duanmu attended tsinghua university where he studied and wrote fiction , but returned to his homeland of liaoning in his post-university years .
his fiction in both short stories and novels are characterized by the ` native soil ' style , which heavily emphasizes the agrarian environment and heartland values of his homeland region , a style pioneered by duanmu and other modern chinese authors such as shen congwen .
in his novels dating from before the chinese communist revolution in 1949 , duanmu evidences his ardour for traditional chinese fiction tropes , including heroes that join anti-japanese volunteer armies in northeast china , most evidently in `` the ke'erqin banner grasslands '' -lrb- 科爾沁旗草原 -rrb- , about a liaoning family assigned by the qing government to live among the khorchin mongols .
`` eyes of daybreak '' -lrb- 黎明的眼睛 -rrb- and `` an early spring '' -lrb- 早春 -rrb- are his most important short stories , featuring earthy characters and simple plots focused on rural people , shown in a very positive light .
