Abstract: As a senior leader of the Communist Party of China who recently passed way, Wan Li enjoyed quite some biographies in China, approximately 10. Among them, the three biographies by Zhang Guangyou, Ding Longjia, and Chen Tingyi are noteworthy. They all share a biographer-orientated narrative points of view in their respective representations of the subject’s spectacular revolutionary career and unique personality.
Key words: Wan Li; biography; narrative point of view
Quan Zhan is Professor of Chinese Literature in School of Literature and Communication at Jingchu Polytechnic Institute. He is Deputy Director of the Biography Society of China and Deputy Director of Chinese and foreign Biographical Literature Research Association. Having studied biography in his spare time for thirty-one years, he is the author of Overview of China's Contemporary Biographical Literature (2004), Biographical Literature: Interpretation and Criticism (2007). His recent publication is “The Truthfulness and the Taste in Life Writing: A Comparision of Four Biographies of Sima Guang” (2015).
Wei Xue is Lecturer of Chinese Literature in School of Literature and Communication at Jingchu Polytechnic Institute and a visiting scholar at Central China Normal university. Her research interest is Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature. Her articles that appeared in 2015 include “The Narrative art in the film Living, ” “On the Evolution of the Literary Thoughts in Chinese Modern Romanticism,” “A Discussion on the Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literary Group Creative Writing’s ‘Turn’.”