Luo Guangbin

Luo Guangbin (1924 to 1967) was a Chinese writer born in Zhong County, in what is now Chongqing Municipality, into a prosperous and well connected family. He joined the Communist Party in March 1948, was betrayed by an informer and arrested in September 1948, and was held at the Zhazidong prison and the White Mansion concentration camp in Chongqing. After the liberation of the city he held posts in the Communist Youth League and later worked as a professional writer for the Chongqing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. With Yang Yiyan he wrote the novel Red Crag (1961), drawn from their own imprisonment, which sold 3.5 million copies and was translated into 19 foreign languages. Red Guards seized him in February 1967 and he died five days later.