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Listen to the story of lifelong love that year-old Rao Pingru celebrated in his graphic novel, Our Story. Podcast: Play in new window. One of the 18th students of Whampoa Military Academy, he participated in the War of Resistance and Civil War, and his life was full of frustrations. At the age of 87, Mr. After that, for half a year, he had nothing to do with his grief.

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She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime , a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang 's novella Lust, Caution , which was later adapted into the eponymous film by Ang Lee. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. She became a well-known socialite and appeared on the cover of the popular pictorial The Young Companion Liangyou in Although her family was half-Japanese, they were strongly opposed to Japan's aggression toward China. When Japan invaded Manchuria in and attacked Shanghai in , Zheng and her siblings joined anti-Japanese protests. When Japan invaded China in and occupied Shanghai following the Battle of Shanghai , Zheng secretly joined the resistance movement and became an underground Kuomintang Nationalist spy. Zheng was involved in a plot to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei. As Ding had formerly served as the principal of Zheng's secondary school, she was tasked with seducing him and luring him into a trap. On 10 December , Zheng invited Ding back to her home at the end of a date where assassins waited inside, but Ding refused her invitation and the plan failed.

Caught off guard, the assassins shot at Ding, pingru, but missed him before his driver sped away.

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Our Story is a masterpiece of memory. At the age of eighty-eight, following the death of his partner Meitang, Rao Pingru began to paint. Set during the political upheavals of the 20th century in China , Pingru — who has no previous books to his name — tells a story that is both entirely his own and indeed representative of a whole generation. But his life was anything but ordinary, with a plot that feels inherently novelistic, shaped by the smallest of margins, the closest of calls. The challenge for Pingru was not to turn his life into a novel, but to turn his novelistic story into a life, a life that feels convincing, relatable, lived. If his words describe, his paintings animate, and provide a rich visual backdrop to the narrative. Stylistically, his paintings are naive and cartoon-like, while a palette of diluted yellows and purples are frequently used to colour physical spaces and backgrounds. Every story is true.

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She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime , a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang 's novella Lust, Caution , which was later adapted into the eponymous film by Ang Lee. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. Zheng admired famous actresses Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu and wanted to be a well-known actress, performed with a group of actors from Datong University. She became a well-known socialite and appeared on the cover of the popular pictorial The Young Companion Liangyou in Although her family was half-Japanese, they were strongly opposed to Japan's aggression toward China. When Japan invaded Manchuria in and attacked Shanghai in , Zheng and her siblings joined anti-Japanese protests. When Japan invaded China in and occupied Shanghai following the Battle of Shanghai , Zheng secretly joined the resistance movement and became an underground Kuomintang Nationalist spy. Zheng was involved in a plot to assassinate Ding Mocun , the security chief of the Wang Jingwei puppet regime headed by Wang Jingwei. As Ding had formerly served as the principal of Zheng's secondary school, she was tasked with seducing him and luring him into a trap.

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Chinese socialite and spy. When Japan invaded China in and occupied Shanghai following the Battle of Shanghai , Zheng secretly joined the resistance movement and became an underground Kuomintang Nationalist spy. There was protest in the way that Wang Jiazhi was depicted since it was felt that her story "perversely twisted the heroic deeds of her prototype, Zheng. He felt that death was something he could not change, but when he drew pictures, people could still exist. Podcast: Play in new window. Zheng hid a Browning pistol and drove to 76 Jessfield Road; when she was about to enter, she was arrested by Li Shiqun and held at Ding's intelligence headquarters. Connect with us Stay tuned for our news On 21 December , Zheng accompanied Ding to dinner at his friend's house. Listen to Podcast. Espionage activity.

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Two Kuomintang assassins had been waiting nearby for a chance to kill Ding. Listen to the story of lifelong love that year-old Rao Pingru celebrated in his graphic novel, Our Story. After the failed assassination attempt, Ding knew that Zheng was a spy and contacted her to meet him. From her mother, Zheng Pingru learned to speak Japanese fluently. One of the 18th students of Whampoa Military Academy, he participated in the War of Resistance and Civil War, and his life was full of frustrations. Amazon Blackwells Bookshop. A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. A love letter, a work of folk art and a historical testament, Our Story is a truly unique graphic memoir. He visited home once per year to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and his love for Meitang never diminished. In , the novella was made into a film, Lust, Caution , directed by Ang Lee. When Meitang, his beloved wife of 60 years died, Rao Pingru was overcome by grief. And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint. S2CID After that, for half a year, he had nothing to do with his grief. Archived from the original on 9 July