Yang Yiyan (1925 to 2017) was a Chinese writer born in Chongqing, with family origins in Wusheng County in Guang'an, Sichuan Province. He entered the electrical engineering department of Tongji University in 1944. In 1948 he was arrested for taking part in the student movement against the civil war and was imprisoned in the Zhazidong concentration camp in Chongqing until the city was liberated in November 1949. He joined the China Writers Association in 1963 and later served as vice chairman of its Sichuan branch. With Luo Guangbin he wrote the novel Red Crag (1961), based on their imprisonment, which reached a total print run of more than ten million copies. His later books include Secret World and The Rear Area.
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Date of Birth November 18, 1925
Baidu Baike: Red Crag (Baidu Baike English)
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"Red Crag" is a full-length revolutionary historical novel by modern authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan , based on their own real experiences and observations in the Zhazidong and White Mansion prisons in Kuomintang-controlled areas during the Second Chinese Civil War.
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