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Wu Qimin, known by his pen names Meian, Weng Jiyi, Leung Pak-ching, and Xiang Chen, was a famous writer and a senior literary predecessor in Hong Kong's literary scene.Born in October 1909 in Chenghai, Guangdong Province, Wu Qimin was admitted to the Chenghai County Secondary School at the age of 16, where he was educated by renowned scholars, such as Du Guo-ziang and Ke Po-nian, in his early years. In his middle school years, Wu Qimin participated in the activities of the Rainbow Society, a new literary organization in Shantou, and took part in the editing and publication of the semi-monthly Rainbow and the Rainbow series. After the failure of the Revolution, Wu Qimin worked as a middle and elementary school teacher in Shantou, and then moved from Shantou to Shanghai as a secondary school teacher.

Chinese Name: Wu Qimin

Alias: Wu Ruixin

Date of Birth: 1909

Date of Death: 1999

Occupation: Writer

Major Achievements: Famous Writer

Representative Works: Middle Grade Novels, "Forever Wounded", Prose Collection, "Appendicular Nights", Poetry Collections, "The Collection of Contemplation," "The Tablet of Qimin" and "In Love with the Collection," etc.

Works

Wu Qimin began to write in 1925, and successively published his middle grade novel "Forever Wounded", a collection of essays called "Rendezvous Night", and a collection of poems titled "Contemplation", "Tablet of Qimeng", and "In Love", during which time he was a teacher in his hometown elementary school and Shantou Seaside Middle School.

Film

Wu Qimin moved his family to Hong Kong in 1937, and began his literary career in Hong Kong for more than half a century.
In 1939, Wu Qimin became the editor of Hong Kong News in Hong Kong's Singing Pole and also edited the supplement of The Eighth Art. After the war, Wu Qimin mainly wrote movie reviews for newspapers and magazines and professional movie scriptwriters. He was a contributor to "Cantonese Film Review" and created movie scripts and was a member of Shaw Brothers' screenwriting team. In 1949, he participated in the Hong Kong South China Film Workers' Association, and was appointed as a director for two consecutive terms. From 1949 to 1955, Wu Qimin worked for Hong Kong's Dragon Horse, Phoenix and Great Wall film companies, and he wrote movie scripts that were filmed in Cantonese. The Late Return of Lang Lang", "Blood and Sea Beacon", "A Thousand Dollars for Sale", "Red Tears at the Green Window", "Seven Sisters Will Meet the Cowherd", "Inch of Gold and Ruler of Earth", "Long Live Mrs.", "Soul Broken at the Blue Bridge", "Red and White Peony Blossoms", "Xisi Shi", and in Mandarin, there are more than 20 films including "There is a request for more than one", "Hushan League", "Bleak Sisters", "Overseas Strange Fortunes", "Hedgerow Chrysanthemums" etc. ****.

In the mid-1950s, U.S. imperialism imposed a blockade and embargo on New China, and a wave of anti-*** and anti-Chinese sentiment spread across the world. With the support of the "dollar culture", Hong Kong's literary circles "anti-*** literature" was rampant, while Hong Kong's patriotic and progressive culture did not even have a literary publication. In the face of the confrontation between the two forces in Hong Kong's literary circles, Wu Qimin devoted himself to the editing of patriotic and progressive literature; in January 1956, he founded the Xindi Publishing House and edited the bimonthly Native Land; in 1960, he founded the Boing Ming Publishing House and edited the bimonthly New Words. Native Land" reported on the achievements of the construction of the motherland and hometown and the delightful changes, advocated that literature and art should be rooted in the soil of life, and opened up a garden for realist literature in Hong Kong. This is precisely the cultural vernacular that Wu Qimin is fond of. New Words, on the other hand, is a comprehensive publication with a stronger literary color, aimed at young writers and readers, and very popular in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. In his later years, he was the editor-in-chief of Ocean Literary Arts, which nurtured a number of authors.

Contacting Writers

During the seven years that Wu Qimin edited and published Native Land and New Words, he contacted a large number of famous writers, such as Cao Juren, Ye Lingfeng, Lulun, Huang Mengtian, Xia Ge, Xia Yanbing, Ruan Lang, Gao Brigade, Luofu, and Xia Yi, etc. He also discovered and cultivated a large number of young writers. In order to provide these writers with more opportunities to publish their works and exchange their creations, so as to promote literary activities in Hong Kong, Wu Qimin contacted Yip Lingfeng and Xia Guo to carry out the activities of editing and writers' collections, edited and published the Collected Works of Fifty and Fifty Again, edited and published a collection of eight works, including a collection of short stories entitled "The Sound of the Market - The Shadow of the Tears - A Smile", and a collection of prose entitled "Songs of the Sea - The Language of the Night - Thoughts of the Passion". He wrote a preface for these two collections, pointing out that the two collections turned the stories of blood and tears produced by Hong Kong society in those years into literary works, preserved part of the creative performance of Hong Kong writers in this period, and became a major event in Hong Kong's literary world at that time.

Wu Qimin's literary views influenced these young writers. Their creativity and growth were inseparable from Wu Qimin's encouragement and help. They grew up following the path of realism and became the backbone of Hong Kong literature, and constitute a record-worthy part of Hong Kong's literary history, with writers such as Shu Xiangcheng, Jin Yi, Haixin, Zhang Junmu, Luan Lun, Wu Yangbi, Lin Zhen, Wang Fang, and Tan Xiumu, among many others, all trekking along the arduous path.

Was

Wu Qimin became deputy editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong China News Agency in 1963, and then deputy editor-in-chief of the overseas office of the China Bookstore in 1971. In order to restore the tradition of realism in Hong Kong literature, he took the risk of founding and editing the monthly magazine Ocean Literature and Art for eight years, and compiled and published a variety of books in the Ocean Literature and Art series, which included writers, works of new literature and classical literature since the May Fourth Incident, and promoted them. It has included and promoted writers and works of new literature since the May Fourth Movement of China and classical literature, spared no effort in supporting the works of local writers, and prospered literary creation in Hong Kong, especially in the creation of young writers, with notable achievements. Ocean Literary Arts was the most important literary publication in the Hong Kong literary scene throughout the 1970s. It has always adhered to the creative line of realism and the policy of running a publication based in Hong Kong, in touch with the Mainland and facing overseas. This is what Wu Qimin has consistently advocated and practiced since he was engaged in literary editing. It is in line with the special position and role of the Hong Kong literary world in Chinese literature in China and the world.

Wu Qimin has been a literary editor for more than half a century. In addition to novels and movie scripts, his literary creations include a tremendous number of prose essays, which have appeared in various newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong. His essays include travelogues, essays on life, and lyrical sketches, while the most numerous and powerful ones are his literary and historical journals, which have already been collected, including the essay collections "Appendix Night", "Small Collection of Mountain Town" (a collection of essays and novels), "Collection of Picking Up Contributions", "Pick-ups at the Edge of the Book", "Collection of Pick-ups of Mustard", "Essays on Reading in the Wangdaoxuan", "Leisure Ink", "Miscellaneous Essays in the Wangcuixuan", "Small Journals in Literature and History", "Literary and Historical Journals", and "New Recordings" (in collaboration), and the novels "The Last The Last Chance", "The Enigmatic Woman", "Midsummer", "Twelve Cities on Horseback", "Qu Yuan and Du Fu", "Selected Lyrical Poems of the Chinese Dynasties", and many other movie reviews. Wu Qimin has a deep foundation in Chinese studies, and is a well-read and rigorous writer who has expressed his insights and sentiments in his essays on the history of China, or triggered his thoughts from the real life, and then quoted from the past to the present, expressing his own feelings and sentiments through the past and the present. 1979, Wu Qimin joined the Chinese Writers' Association (CWA), and he is one of the famous Hong Kong writers who joined the CWA at an early stage.

Post-retirement

After his retirement, Mr. Ng worked as a consultant for the Chung Hwa Book Company (Hong Kong) Limited. Since the 1980s, he has been writing a column in Ta Kung Pao called "Sitting in the Well", in which he writes essays on ancient and modern book writers, discloses the experiences of readers, and sometimes reminisces about the past, and occasionally criticizes the ills of the times. In the cultural oasis of Hong Kong, Wu Qimin worked diligently until he was more than 80 years old, and in October 1987, Wu Qimin, together with 30 other literary figures, initiated the preparations for the establishment of the Hong Kong Writers' Fellowship and served as its director.

Death

In February 1999, Wu Qimin died in Hong Kong. At the beginning of the following year, his heirs, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Yangbi and Ms. Wong Tze-ling, compiled a selection of his writings into The Collected Works of Wu Qimin (Literature Series) and The Collected Works of Wu Qimin (Film and Drama Series), both of which were published. The "Literature Series" includes novels, essays, new poems, early writings, and literary and historical sketches, etc. The "Film and Drama Series" is a publication of Wu Qimin's writings. The "Film and Drama Series" includes film scripts, film reviews, film history and biographies of filmmakers. The "Publication Note" of the anthology says that Wu Qimin "has written a lot of old poems and ancient words since he was a teenager", which will be compiled into a special collection when he has the chance; while the 100-odd pieces in the "Literature Series" are literary and historical sketches. In the "Literature" section, more than 100 articles were selected from more than 5,000 manuscripts, about one-fourth of the total. It can be seen that the compilation of the whole collection is still to be completed.