Pingru

Listen to the story of lifelong love that year-old Rao Pingru celebrated in pingru graphic novel, pingru, Our Story. Podcast: Play in new window.

She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime , a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang 's novella Lust, Caution , which was later adapted into the eponymous film by Ang Lee. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. She became a well-known socialite and appeared on the cover of the popular pictorial The Young Companion Liangyou in Although her family was half-Japanese, they were strongly opposed to Japan's aggression toward China.

Pingru

Skip to Content Home Rao Pingru. Books Biography. Select a format: Hardback Ebook. Amazon Blackwells Bookshop. A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. It was a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. But when Meitang passed away in , Pingru realised that their marriage and all the small moments and memories of a life together, would be lost to history. And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint. We see Pingru and Meitang through the decades, through both poverty and good fortune, and as they grow so too does China: the nation undergoing political turmoil and seismic cultural change. A tale both tragic and inspiring, of enduring love and simple values, Our Story is an old-fashioned romance that unfolds within the rush of a rapidly changing nation. A love letter, a work of folk art and a historical testament, Our Story is a truly unique graphic memoir.

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Our Story is a masterpiece of memory. At the age of eighty-eight, following the death of his partner Meitang, Rao Pingru began to paint. Set during the political upheavals of the 20th century in China , Pingru — who has no previous books to his name — tells a story that is both entirely his own and indeed representative of a whole generation. But his life was anything but ordinary, with a plot that feels inherently novelistic, shaped by the smallest of margins, the closest of calls. The challenge for Pingru was not to turn his life into a novel, but to turn his novelistic story into a life, a life that feels convincing, relatable, lived. If his words describe, his paintings animate, and provide a rich visual backdrop to the narrative. Stylistically, his paintings are naive and cartoon-like, while a palette of diluted yellows and purples are frequently used to colour physical spaces and backgrounds. Every story is true.

Pingru

She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime , a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang 's novella Lust, Caution , which was later adapted into the eponymous film by Ang Lee. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. She became a well-known socialite and appeared on the cover of the popular pictorial The Young Companion Liangyou in

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On 21 December , Zheng accompanied Ding to dinner at his friend's house. Zheng's story is generally believed to have inspired the character of Wang Jiazhi Wong Chia-chih in the novella Lust, Caution , written by Eileen Chang in Skip to Content Home Rao Pingru. Chinese socialite and spy. Rao Pingru drew from memory and included scenes of his childhood, stories Meitang told him, their wedding day. In other projects. Wed, Mar 20, Caught off guard, the assassins shot at Ding, but missed him before his driver sped away. After Zheng Pingru's execution, her father soon fell ill and died in Listen to Podcast.

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On 10 December , Zheng invited Ding back to her home at the end of a date where assassins waited inside, but Ding refused her invitation and the plan failed. China Times in Chinese Taiwan. A love letter, a work of folk art and a historical testament, Our Story is a truly unique graphic memoir. Zheng was involved in a plot to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei. Skip to Content Home Rao Pingru. He visited home once per year to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and his love for Meitang never diminished. Zheng's story is generally believed to have inspired the character of Wang Jiazhi Wong Chia-chih in the novella Lust, Caution , written by Eileen Chang in Article Talk. Caught off guard, the assassins shot at Ding, but missed him before his driver sped away. Podcast: Play in new window.