Ru Zhijuan

Ru Zhijuan (September 13, 1925 - October 7, 1998), whose pen names are Aru and Chuxu, was born in Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and is a contemporary Chinese writer. Representative works include "Tall Poplar Tree", "Lily", "Quiet Maternity Hospital", "The Wrong Editing Story", etc. Ru Zhijuan was born in Shanghai in 1925. He lost his parents when he was young, so he followed his grandmother to make a living by doing handicrafts. He didn't go to elementary school until he was 11 years old. After his grandmother passed away, he was adopted by an orphanage and continued to attend high school. In 1942, graduated from junior high school. In 1943, he followed his brother Ru Jie (later renamed Shen Zhiyu) to northern Jiangsu to join the New Fourth Army Repertory Troupe as an actor. At the end of 1943, she completed the short story "Life" using some materials from the military. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1947 and married director Wang Xiaoping in 1950. In 1955, he transferred from the Nanjing Military Region Repertory Theater to Shanghai and worked as an editor at "Literary Monthly". In 1958, the short story "Lily" was published in the "Yanhe" literary magazine. The June 1958 issue of "People's Literature" magazine published Mao Dun's comments and reprinted the full text of "Lily". In 1959, he published a short story collection "Tall Poplar Trees" (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House), and began to engage in professional literary creation in 1960. During the Cultural Revolution, "Lily" was criticized as a poisonous weed. In 1979, he published the short story "The Wrong Editing Story", which won the 1979 National Outstanding Short Story Award.