Engraver Wu Bide's Autobiography

Author: Wu Bide
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: A destitute youth with a drifting life, to escape the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, fled from Jiangnan to the Sichuan rear area. Fortunately, he entered the "Yuzai School" founded by Mr. Tao Xingzhi, later known as the "Model Teacher for Generations." Here, he not only found a home but also found friendship, ideas, and a good education, as well as nurtured his artistic talents. The author writes about his studies and life at Yuzai School and the Chongqing office of the Eighth Route Army, as well as his interactions with a group of teachers, friends, and professional revolutionaries. He expresses the life of a young man who yearned for progress, Yan'an, and the "Luyi" (Art Institute of Revolutionary Youth) in the turbulent yet romantic and passionate environment of the rear area during the War of Resistance. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the author participated in the work of the Chinese Communist Party delegation during the Old Political Consultative Conference and eventually became a student at the art department of the North China "Lian Da" University, the long-anticipated "Luyi." After undergoing the trials of land reform and the liberation war, he joined the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the new China. In the 1950s, he studied abroad at the Repin Institute of Fine Arts in the Soviet Union, becoming a renowned print artist. The author's personal story does not end there; he has also experienced all the ups and downs of China's half-century since then. He narrates his observations, thoughts, creative experiences, family and children, as well as his shortcomings and traumas, showcasing the marks left on his life's journey.