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Zhang Xianliang

Died in 2014

Zhang Xianliang was born in Nanjing in December 1936; his father, an industrialist and Guomindang official, died in prison under the new regime. Classified as a rightist in 1957 because of a poem, he spent twenty-two years in detention and in camps, in Ningxia. Rehabilitated in 1979 (in 1977 according to Chinawriter), he then chaired the Ningxia writers' association and sat on the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1992 he founded film studios at Zhenbeibu, and died in Yinchuan on 27 September 2014.

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