1. Mei Zhi was a Chinese children's author and essayist.
11 Facts About Mei Zhi
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Mei Zhi was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, the eldest daughter of three children.
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Mei Zhi met another member of this group, Hu Feng, in 1933 when he returned after being deported from Japan and the two married at the end of the year.
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In 1941, Mei Zhi fled with her family to Hong Kong, which soon fell to the Japanese, after which they went to Guilin.
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Mei Zhi's alleged crime was that she had transcribed Hu's book Sanshi fangyan.
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Mei Zhi was released in 1961 after the death of her mother, but was only permitted to visit Hu in prison in 1965.
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Later, Hu was imprisoned, and frequently fell ill, thus Mei Zhi was taken to the prison at Dazhou and made to nurse him.
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In 1979, Mei Zhi was rehabilitated and allowed to return to Chengdu.
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In 1980, Mei Zhi was given official permission to take Hu to Beijing, in order to help his increasingly serious mental illness.
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Hu died in 1985, after which Mei Zhi wrote several memoirs detailing his experiences in prison.
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Mei Zhi was portrayed by Yuan Quan in the 2014 film The Golden Era.