Rao Pingru (; November 1922 – 4 April 2020) was a Chinese comic book author who wrote the autobiographical love memoir ''
Our Story''.
Biography
Rao was born in 1922 in
Nanchang. In 1940, he joined the army and was admitted into the
Republic of China Military Academy in
Chengdu
Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...
. In 1945, he became a Lieutenant of the 83rd Division of the 100th Infantry of the
National Revolutionary Army
The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army () before 1928, and as National Army () after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China ...
. 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
Anhui 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
Jean-Jacques Sempé, usually known as Sempé (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2022), was a French cartoonist. He is known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny, ''Le Petit Nicolas'', and also for his poster-like illust ...
. The book, ''Our Story'', was published in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
in 2013. In 2017, at the age of 95, he was a guest of honor at the
Angoulême International Comics Festival.
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
Chinese illustrators
Republic of China Military Academy alumni
21st-century Chinese writers
Chinese male writers
Writers from Jiangxi
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