Chen Bochuan

Chen Bochuan

Chen Bochuan (August 13, 1906 ~ November 6, 1997), formerly known as Chen Rulong, once used the pseudonym Xia Lei. Baoshan District, Shanghai (formerly Baoshan County, Jiangsu Province). He is a famous writer, translator, publisher and educator of children's literature in China.

He devoted all his life to the cause of children's literature. He is a great master of Chinese children's literature and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. He made outstanding contributions to the cause of Chinese children's literature. His creation, translation and theoretical research of children's literature are the precious heritage of Chinese children's literature.

He has a collection of fairy tales, a cat that wants to fly, and a review of children's literature. In 1981, Chen Bochuan children's literature gardener award was founded to encourage domestic writers to participate in children's literature creation. In 1988, the award was renamed "Chen Bochuan children's Literature Award", and it was the 27th award in 2007.

Character experience

Born on August 13, 1906. Luodian Town, Baoshan, Jiangsu Province (now Shanghai). Drop out after primary school,

He was an apprentice. In the 1920s, he was engaged in rural primary school teachers, at the same time, amateur creation of children's literature.

In 1927, the Commercial Press published his first novella school life. From then on, literary creation began.

In 1929, he went to Shanghai to teach in exile. He studied in the Higher Normal School of Daxia University and was a teacher of Shanghai kindergarten normal school (until 1938).

From 1930 to the Anti Japanese War, he published a variety of children's novels, fairy tales, theoretical works and translated works in Beixin book company, children's book company and Commercial Press. Editor in chief of the semimonthly primary school students. At the same time, "children's series", "Beixin primary school loose leaf anthology".

The September 18th Incident stimulated his patriotic enthusiasm, and he wrote the fairy tale Miss Alice, which satirized the non resistance of the Kuomintang, the fairy tale master poljo, which satirized the decadent life of the exploiters, the novel son of the Chinese family and the child on the line of fire.

From 1934 to 1937, he was the local director of children's book, in charge of children's magazine, common sense pictorial and little pictorial.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he wrote more than 20 essays, poems and novels for Libao, Yibao and Wenbao, including the new exile picture, the man with black cloth, which exposed and accused the Japanese aggressors' crimes against China and reflected the children's life in the national calamity. He also devoted himself to translating European and American children's literature, and successively published the child prodigy, the Betrayer, the wizard of Oz and the empty room 》And so on

Chinese children's literature. In 1942, he left Shanghai and went to Sichuan. He worked in the national compilation and translation Museum, and taught in Fudan University. He was engaged in writing and children's literature research in his spare time.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai and continued to engage in the theoretical research of children's literature and the organization of the author team.

In 1943, he was the editor of Zhonghua Book Company in Chongqing.

On April 1, 1945, children magazine resumed its publication in Chongqing as editor in chief. After Zhonghua Book Company moved back to Shanghai, he continued to be the editor of the company.

In May 1946, he and educator Li Chucai initiated the organization of "Shanghai Children's literature workers association".

In 1947, he was chief editor of modern children, a supplement to Ta Kung Pao. In the same year, he joined the Shanghai primary school teachers' Association for advanced studies and enthusiastically participated in the democratic activities of "fighting against hunger and striving for survival" of primary and secondary school teachers.

In 1948, he was also the chief editor of children's supplement modern children in Ta Kung Pao.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1949, Chen Bochu became the vice president of the children's publishing house, and devoted all his energy to the creation and research of children's literature. He has taught children's literature in East China Normal University and Beijing Normal University.

1949-1959 was the most vigorous period of his creation. He wrote nearly 100 works for children and published them

He has published a collection of fairy tales, novels and essays, such as a cat who wants to fly, Chinese tie mu'er, fantasy with colorful wings, and little girl running down the hill. From 1950 to 1954, he was an adjunct professor of children's literature at St. John's University in Shanghai and East China Normal University.

In December 1952, the children's publishing house was established as vice president. Since 1952, he has been elected director, vice chairman and consultant of Shanghai Writers Association.

In November 1954, he was transferred to Beijing as editor and editor of the people's education press.

From June 1957 to November 1960, he became a professional writer of China Writers Association.

In the 1950s, a variety of children's literature works and theoretical works were published in Zhonghua Book Company, children's publishing house, China children's publishing house, Writers Publishing House, Changjiang literature and Art Publishing House, Tianjin People's Publishing House and Dongfeng literature and Art Publishing House.

He returned to Shanghai in November 1960 and continued to be the vice president of children's publishing house.

During the cultural revolution, he was criticized unfairly. He was forced to stop writing.

After smashing the gang of four, he continued to create dozens of new works. Published the novel collection "Flying Tigers and wild boars"

"A game", "straight up 3800 Kan" and other works. From the late 1970s to the 1990s, a variety of children's literature works were published in people's Literature Publishing House, China children's publishing house, Beijing Publishing House, Guangdong People's publishing house, Xinlei publishing house and Hunan children's publishing house.

Since 1979, he has been elected as the director and consultant of all previous Chinese Writers Association.

In 1980, at the second national children's literature and Art Awards Conference, the novel "Flying Tigers and wild boars" won the honorary award.

In 1983, he was elected a member of the Sixth National Political Consultative Conference.

In 1981, he donated 55000 yuan to set up the "Shanghai Children's literature gardener Award" (later renamed "Chen Bochuan children's Literature Award")

The awards are selected once a year. Because of their achievements in children's literature creation, they received the honorary award of "the second national children's Literature Creation Award" jointly sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Ministry of culture in 1980, the Zhangshu award awarded by China Welfare Association in 1985, and the honorary award of children's Literature creation awarded by all China Women's Federation and the Ministry of culture in 1988. In 1989, 1992 and 1997, children's Publishing House published 1-3 volumes (fairy tales, novels, poetry and prose) of Chen Boqi's works respectively. Over the past 75 years, he has written and translated nearly 3 million words of children's literature works and theories, and published nearly 100 books.

In 1991, he was awarded the certificate of special allowance for experts and scholars with outstanding contributions by the State Council.

On November 6, 1997, Chen Bochuan, a great master of children's literature, died in Shanghai Huadong Hospital at the age of 91. Before his death, he donated all the books he had accumulated in his life to a children's Library in Pudong New Area. Later, the library was named "Chen Bochuan children's Library".

August 2006 is the 100th anniversary of Chen Boqi's birth.

Character life

Wind and rain in hometown

In 1906, Chen Bochuan was born in Luodian Town, Baoshan County, Baoshan District, Shanghai. His primary school days were spent in liluodian primary school (now Luoyang primary school) in Baoshan county. After that, he studied for 3 years in Baoshan a normal school (equivalent to junior high school)

After graduation, he was assigned to zhujiazhai Sixth National School (now Zhuzhai primary school) in Yangxing township as a teacher. In 1923, he began to write children's literature, and wrote the first novella "model student" (later renamed "school life"). Two years later, in February 1925, this very hardworking and dedicated primary school teacher was transferred to Songyang primary school (now Baoshan Experimental Primary School) as a teacher of Mandarin and arithmetic. At the same time, he served as the director of the junior department and the head teacher of the third and fourth grade.

In October 1926, the Northern Expedition army had gone north from Guangzhou and conquered Wuhan. Before long, the Northern Expedition army went down the Yangtze River to Nanjing and Shanghai. Patriotic people are dreaming in their hearts that the era of warlord separatism is coming to an end and new hope is coming. On a very cold night, at the Chengzhong primary school in Baoshan Confucian temple, Chen Bochuan solemnly participated in a secret oath ceremony for joining the party and joined the Kuomintang underground organization during the period of Kuomintang communist cooperation.

In April 1927, Chiang Kai Shek suddenly rebelled against the revolution and waved his butcher's knife at the unexpected revolutionaries. Bloodbath and white terror enveloped the whole country. In those days after that, although the campus of Songyang primary school looked as calm as usual, it was still in Chenzhou

Bo blow's heart, but the rolling waves. Before long, Chen Bochuan was arranged to distribute and post leaflets among the students and the masses in this area to expose Chiang Kai Shek's criminal acts. One day in February 1928, in the column of "Wusong local news" in newspapers such as Shenbao and Xinwen Bao published in Shanghai, there was such a piece of news: Huang Yinong, a 19-year-old Communist, was committed to red agitation, attempted to subvert the government and executed immediately. The unfortunate news shocked and angered Chen Bochuan and his three colleagues. At this time, they suddenly realized that the executed Huang Yinong was the revolutionary youth in the primary school.

One morning in June 1928, Chen Bochuan was lecturing to students in the classroom. Suddenly, several gendarmes rushed into the classroom and arrested him. These gendarmes were sent by Wusong gendarmerie headquarters. His colleague Xu Xuewen was also arrested.

After the incident subsided, both Chen Bochuan and Xu Xuewen realized very clearly that if they continued to stay in Baoshan, they might encounter something unexpected. At the end of this year, they resigned from the school together

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