Pu Xiuxiu: This life is boundless and vast

Author: Yuan Donglin
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Pu Xixiu, the second older sister of Peng Dehuai's wife Pu Anxiu, was an "outstanding people's journalist." In her youth, she advocated women's liberation and pursued independent, fearless of oppression, daring to expose the truth. She was once severely beaten by secret agents, arrested, and nearly lost her life. After the liberation, she wrote extensively of praise for the new society and its new appearance. During the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong praised her as a "journalist who had been in prison." During the Cultural Revolution, however, she was involved in political turmoil due to personal connections. This book was written by her daughter, Yuan Donglin, describing her brilliant yet tragic life. It is a character biography-style book that highlights historical photographs and visual materials. Set against the backdrop of Pu Xixiu's life, it selects life fragments that best showcase her character and fate. The text is concise, the images are rich, each life scene, portrait, and page of manuscript, along with the subject's own accounts and others' comments, lively image captions, are more vivid and special than typical textual descriptions, more engaging and inspiring readers' imagination. Readers can gain a multi-layered, multi-faceted understanding of Pu Xixiu's life.