ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig15_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Lu Tianming was born in 1944 in Shanghai and is several years older than other writers in this book. He was probably one of the most devoted to building the countryside. As early as 1958, in response to the call "Be the first generation of educated peasants," he volunteered to go to Hui County, Anhui Province. During the great famine after the failure of the Great Leap Forward he contracted tuberculosis as a result of malnutrition and returned to Shanghai for treatment. Upon recovery in 1964 he volunteered to go to a military farm in Xinjiang, where he worked on land reclamation. He was transferred to work for the China Broadcasting and Television Production Station in Beijing in 1975 after the success of his play "Bon Voyage" (Yangfan wanli) (published in 1973), which praised the Rustication Movement.
