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Bai Hua was born on 20 November, 1930 in Xinyang, Henan, China, is a Chinese novelist, playwright, and poet (1930–2019). Discover Bai Hua's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Occupation Novelist, playwright and poet
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 20 November, 1930
Birthday 20 November
Birthplace Xinyang, Henan, China
Date of death 2019
Died Place Shanghai, China
Nationality China

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1930

Bai Hua (20 November 1930 – 15 January 2019) was a Chinese novelist, playwright and poet.

He gained national fame for his plays based on uncompromising historical criticism.

Bai was born Chen Youhua (陈佑华) in Xinyang, Henan in 1930.

His mother was illiterate but able to sing folk songs, which became a lifelong interest for her son.

Bai had a twin brother, Ye Nan (1930–2003), who became a successful movie scriptwriter in the 1980s.

Bai started publishing poems at the age of fifteen.

Some of his plays were banned because they dealt with the political purges and murders in the Red Army that took place in the 1930s and offered a critical view of traditional patriotic values.

1938

His father, an anti-Japanese activist, was executed by the Japanese by burying him alive in 1938.

1946

In 1946, he adopted the name Bai Hua ("White Birch"), taking it from a Russian poem.

Many of his poems appeared in the Southern Henan Daily.

1947

Subsequently, he joined the People's Liberation Army in 1947 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.

He worked for the Party as a writer specialized in Chinese ethnic minorities, and visited the areas where they lived.

1950

In the mid-1950s, his support of disgraced art critic Hu Feng led him to be investigated and detained for eight months, during which he attempted to commit suicide.

1952

From 1952, he was employed by the People's Liberation Army as head of a creative writing group based in Kunming, and worked as secretary of Marshal He Long.

1956

Charges against him were dropped in 1956.

1957

He was labeled a "rightist" in 1957, and expelled from the Army and the Party in 1958.

1964

He had to work in a factory before being hired as a scriptwriter by Haiyian Film Studios in Shanghai and came back to the army in 1964.

He was further marginalized during the Cultural Revolution.

1970

He produced several influential dramas and films in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

1976

After 1976, he was able to publish dramas and novels that were mildly critical of the Cultural Revolution.

1979

Among these the most famous was the film script Unrequited Love (1979), which became a movie by director Peng Ning, The Sun and the People (苦戀, 1980) that was never shown to the public.

1982

In 1982, the script was used for the Taiwanese movie Portrait of a Fanatic.

In his script, Bai depicted an overseas Chinese painter who returned to China in order to devote his life to his motherland but ended up suffering political persecution and death.

The painter's daughter asked her father a highly sensitive question in the film: "You love your motherland, but does the motherland love you?"

The paramount leader Deng Xiaoping was annoyed by Peng Ning's film and personally organized the old guards to launch a political campaign against Bai in the national media for his violation of Deng's political dogma (specifically the leadership of the party).

The criticism threatened to become another wave of political prosecution until the General Secretary of the party Hu Yaobang interfered on his behalf.

The significance of this episode is that it effectively split the party into two camps.

Bai was later allowed to visit Japan and Southeast Asia and delivered public speeches, but his works were generally suppressed.

His late epic poem "From Qiu Jin to Lin Zhao" was never published.

Bai married Wang Bei, a Chinese actress, and lived in retirement in Shanghai with his wife.

1985

From 1985 to the mid 1990s he was a member of the Shanghai Writers' Association.

He was the first intellectual to be denounced again as "rightist" after the Cultural Revolution.

2009

His most recent poetry, following a long silence, was published in 2009.

2019

Bai died on 15 January 2019.