ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig10_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Kong Jiesheng was born in 1952 in Guangzhou (Canton) into a family of teachers with "overseas connections," a background that caused him to be discriminated against since childhood. During the Cultural Revolution, when schools were closed down, he worked in a steel factory for two years before he was rusticated to Gaoyao County, Guangdong Province, in 1968. Two years later he requested to be transferred to a military farm on Hainan Island (present-day Hainan Province), where he worked until 1976 on jobs such as rubber tree planting, tree cutting, and collecting rubber latex. He obtained a transfer back to Guangzhou for health reasons and worked in a lock factory until he joined the Guangdong Branch of the Chinese Writers' Association in 1979.
