Rao Pingru (; November 1922 – 4 April 2020) was a Chinese comic book author who wrote the autobiographical love memoir ''

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''.

Biography

Rao was born in 1922 in

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. In 1940, he joined the army and was admitted into the

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. In 1945, he became a Lieutenant of the 83rd Division of the 100th Infantry of the

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. In 1948, he married Mao Meitang. That same year, he was appointed Captain. From 1958 to 1979, he served time in a re-education camp in

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for his role in the nationalist army. He then worked for awhile as an editor and kept a medical journal. After the death of his wife in 2008, he wrote a book in her memory, learning to draw from the works of Jean-Jacques Sempé. The book, ''Our Story'', was published in

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in 2013. In 2017, at the age of 95, he was a guest of honor at the

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Our Story

* 《我俩的故事》(Guilin, 2014) * 우리는 60년을 연애했습니다 (Korean translation by Hye-sŏn Nam, 2016) * ''Notre histoire. Pingru et Meitang'' (French translation by François Dubois, 2017) * ''Our Story. A Memoir of Love and Life in China'' (English translation by Nicky Harman, 2018) * ''La Historia de Pingru y Meitang'' (Spanish translation by José Antonio Soriano, 2018) * ''La nostra storia'' (Italian translation by Filippo Bernardini, 2018) * 《平如美棠 : 我倆的故事》 (Taipei, 2018)

References

External links

Lambiek Comiclopedia page.
1922 births 2020 deaths People from Nanchang Chinese comics writers Chinese comics artists Chinese graphic novelists 21st-century Chinese illustrators Republic of China Military Academy alumni 21st-century Chinese writers 20th-century Chinese male writers Writers from Jiangxi {{China-writer-stub