< Song of youth >

Author: Yang Mo (1914～1995)

Contemporary female writer. Formerly known as Yang Chengye, his pen names are Yang Junmo and Yang Mo. Originally from Xiangyin, Hunan, he was born in Beijing. I studied in a hot spring girls' school, but I dropped out of school because of family bankruptcy. I worked as a primary school teacher, tutor and bookstore clerk. In 1934, he started literary creation and published works, mostly essays and short stories reflecting War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Jizhong to participate in the guerrilla war led by China's * * * production party and do women's and propaganda work. Since 1943, he has been the editor and supplement editor of Dawn and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Daily. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a screenwriter of Beijing Film Studio, vice chairman of Beijing Writers Association, director of China Writers Association and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Her masterpiece "Song of Youth" is an excellent novel describing the patriotic student movement led by China's * * * production party, which successfully shaped the artistic model of intellectual youth Lin Daojing. The novel has a profound influence on readers, especially young students. It was once adapted into a screenplay by the author and made into a movie of the same name. Yang Mo's works include the novella Chronicle of Weitang, short stories selected from Red Shandan Flower, Selected Prose of Yang Mo, novels such as Dawn in the East, Song of Wheatgrass, Song of Wu Hua, long reportage such as Diary Not a Diary, Confessions-My Diary, and Collected Works of Yang Mo.