La Historia de Pingru y Meitang
Language: English
Published by Salamandra, 2018
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Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier when he was reintroduced to Mao Meitang, a girl he'd known in childhood and now the woman his father had arranged for him to marry. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru's heart: a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. Our Story is Pingru and Meitang's epic but unassuming romance. It follows the couple through the decades, in both poverty and good fortune--looking for work, opening a restaurant, moving cities, mending shoes, raising their children, and being separated for seventeen years by the government when Pingru is sent to a labor camp. As the pair ages, China undergoes extraordinary growth, political turmoil, and cultural change. When Meitang passes away in 2008, Pingru memorializes his wife and their relationship the only way he knows how: through painting. In an outpouring of love and grief, he puts it all on paper. Spanning 1922 through 2008, Our Story is a tales of enduring love and simple values that is at once tragic and inspiring: an old-fashioned story that unfolds in a nation undergoing cataclysmic change. (With full-color illustrations throughout.). …
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- Title
- La Historia de Pingru y Meitang
- Author
- Pingru Rao
- Publisher
- Salamandra
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 8498388368
- ISBN 13
- 9788498388367
This book narrates the childhood, the meeting, the corresponded love, and the shared misfortunes of Pingru (born in 1922) and Meitang, his wife, who passed away in 2008. Two simple but full lives unfold before our eyes in this tale of intimate words and images, that makes a “couple’s autobiography” – a charming new genre – which takes us through the formidable history of the China of the 20th century.
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About the Author
Rao Pingru (Nanchang, China, 1922) se unió en 1940 al ejército chino, donde ascendió primero a teniente en 1945 y luego a capitán en 1948. Ese mismo año se casó con Meitang Mao. Una década más tarde, como antiguo oficial del ejército nacionalista, fue enviado a un campo de trabajos forzosos en Anhui, del que fue puesto en libertad en 1980. Tras su liberación, trabajó como editor en una revista médica. En 2008, a la muerte de Meitang, decidió escribir e ilustrar un libro dedicado a su memoria, con los detalles de sus respectivas vidas y la historia de China durante los sesenta años de su matrimonio, para guardar su recuerdo de modo imperecedero. La historia de Pingru y Meitang se publicó en su país natal en 2013, cuando Rao Pingru cumplió noventa años. En 2017, fue el invitado de honor en la feria de Angulema. En la actualidad vive en Shanghái con su familia.
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