Mu Qing Biography

Author: Zhang Yanping
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This biography portrays a person, an era, and an exalted soul. It avoids fiction or "reasonable imagination," striving to be grounded in fact. It offers a realistic evaluation of Mu Qing's merits and faults, neither exaggerating nor evading contradictions, allowing readers to see a true, flesh-and-blood Mu Qing. It serves as a powerful counterblast against the current trend of fabrication, falsification, and exaggeration in biographical literature, as well as the tendency toward "all-white-or-all-black," "all-right-or-all-wrong," and "all-good-or-all-bad" perspectives. It is refreshing and can be said to have pioneered a new style. This requires both courage and wisdom. The entire work is vivid and moving, yet unadorned. It truly achieves credibility, readability, and approachability. Among the myriad biographies of today, it is, to put it mildly, hard to come by—a superior work in the field of biographical literature. —Fan Jingxuan (Former Editor-in-Chief of People's Daily, Dean of School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University)
A documentary biography reflecting the life of Mu Qing, a prominent figure in China's journalism. Mu Qing grew up as a journalist "drinking the waters of the Yan River." From the war-torn years to the fervent era of socialist construction, from the arduous process of rectifying chaos to the turbulent age of reform and opening up, Mu Qing, through half a century of revolutionary and construction practice, became a respected leader in the field of journalism and a renowned journalist with high prestige among the readers. In the history of 20th-century journalism, many famous news pieces are associated with his name. The shining images of Communist Party members like Jiaolü, Wu Jichang, and Pan Congzheng were spread to the hearts of generations, if not several generations, of Chinese people through Mu Qing and his colleagues' pens.
This 290,000-word Biography of Mu Qing uses extensive authentic historical materials, oral accounts, and diaries to vividly recreate Mu Qing's extraordinary life, accurately portray his noble spiritual world and personality traits, and dynamically display his unwavering faith in communism, his deep love for the people from the depths of his soul, and his loyalty to the Party's press. It allows readers to see a true, flesh-and-blood Mu Qing.