Feng Jicai Explained

Feng Jicai
Native Name:冯骥才
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date:1942
Birth Place:Tianjin, China
Occupation:Author, artist and literary scholar

Feng Jicai is a contemporary Chinese author, artist and cultural scholar.

Biography

Born in Tianjin in 1942 to a family originally from Ningbo, Zhejiang province, Feng rose to prominence as a pioneer of the Scar Literature movement that emerged after the Cultural Revolution.[1] [2] [3] He has published close to one hundred literary works that span a number of different topics, styles and genres. His major works include Ah!, The Carved Pipe, The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband, The Miraculous Pigtail, Three Inch Golden Lotus, Zebra Finches, Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution, and Extraordinary People in Our Ordinary World. His work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese; internationally, more than forty of his literary works have been published.

Feng is also a cultural scholar. He proposed and directed the Project to Save Chinese Folk Cultural Heritages, and over the last two decades he has campaigned to preserve urban culture and traditional villages.

Feng is currently an honorary member of the Literature and Arts Association, honorary president of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, and an adviser to the State Council. He is also dean, professor and PhD supervisor at the Feng Jicai Institute of Literature and Art, Tianjin University, vice chair of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Evaluation Group, and director of the China Traditional Village Protection Expert Committee. He used to be vice chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy Central Committee, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association, member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Standing Committee, and chairman of Tianjin Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

In 2013, Feng won the 22nd Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award.[4]

In 2018, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles honoured Feng and Wu Bing'an with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Folk Art and Literature.[5]

Translated works (English)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Feng Jicai Institute of Literature and Art, Tianjin University. Yilin Publishing House. 2019. 978-7-5447-7689-9.
  2. Book: Leung, Laifong . Contemporary Chinese fiction writers: biography, bibliography, and critical assessment. 2017. 9780765617606. New York. 936349715.
  3. Web site: Feng Jicai—Savior of Chinese Folk Culture. https://web.archive.org/web/20190722091218/http://english.cri.cn/1521/2006/05/08/44@85929.htm. dead. July 22, 2019. 8 May 2006. China Plus. 22 July 2019.
  4. Web site: Author Feng Jicai wins culture award . People's Daily Online. 2019-04-08.
  5. Web site: 90岁民俗学家乌丙安在德国柏林逝世，深研中国民俗学65年. Chen. Fengjun 陈凤军. 2018-07-12. The Paper. 2018-07-14.
  6. Book: Jicai, Feng. Chrysanthemums and other stories. 1985. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Wilf, Susan. 0-15-117878-X. [1st ed.]. San Diego. 11783009.
  7. Book: Jicai, Feng. The miraculous pigtail. 1987. Panda Books. 0-8351-2050-3. 1st. Beijing, China. 18426733.
  8. Book: Jicai, Feng. Voices from the whirlwind : an oral history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. 1991. Pantheon Books. 0-394-58645-X. 1st. New York, N.Y.. 22626527.
  9. Book: Jicai, Feng. The three-inch golden lotus. 1994. University of Hawaii Press. Wakefield, David, 1950-, Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-. 0-585-25005-7. Honolulu. 44955241.
  10. Book: Jicai, Feng. Let one hundred flowers bloom. 1995. Viking. Smith, Christopher.. 0-670-85805-6. London. 34203857.
  11. Book: Jicai, Feng. Ten years of madness : oral histories of China's Cultural Revolution. 1996. China Books & Periodicals. 0-8351-2584-X. 1st. San Francisco. 36169370.
  12. Book: Jicai, Feng. Feng Jicai xiao shuo xuan = Selected stories by Feng Jicai. 冯骥才.. 1999. Zhongguo wen xue chu ban she, Wai yu jiao xue yu yan jiu chu ban she. 7-5600-1669-3. Di 1 ban. Beijing. 44871143.
  13. Book: Jicai, Feng. Faces in the Crowd: 36 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin. 2019. Sinoist Books. 978-1838905019. London. Milburn. Olivia.
  14. Book: Jicai, Feng. A Looking-Glass World. 2021. Sinoist Books. 9781838905149. Horsham. Milburn. Olivia.
  15. Book: Jicai, Feng. From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day. 2023. Sinoist Books. 9781838905385. Horsham. Milburn. Olivia. Kumar. Yukteshwar.
  16. Book: Jicai, Feng. The Enemies of Art. 2024. Sinoist Books. 9781838905521. Horsham. Milburn. Olivia.

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