Wang Xiaobo died of illness. Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997), contemporary Chinese scholar and writer. Representative works include "Golden Age", "Silver Age", "Bronze Age", "Dark Iron Age", etc. Wang Xiaobo was born in Beijing on May 13, 1952. He has worked as an educated youth, a private teacher, and a worker.
Wang Xiaobo was admitted to Renmin University of China in 1978. In 1980, Wang Xiaobo married Li Yinhe and published his debut novel "Eternal Life" in the same year. In 1984, he went to the United States to study at the East Asian Studies Center of the University of Pittsburgh, and obtained a master's degree two years later. While studying in the United States, he traveled throughout the United States and used the summer vacation of 1986 to travel to Western European countries. He returned to China in 1988 and taught at Peking University and Renmin University of China.
In September 1992, he resigned from his teaching position and became a freelance writer. His only film script, "East Palace and West Palace", won the Best Screenplay Award at the Argentina International Film Festival and was shortlisted for the 1997 Cannes International Film Festival. He died of illness in Beijing on April 11, 1997, at the age of 45.
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Wang Xiaobo's "Silver Age" and "Dark Iron Age", these dystopian novels all highlight the writer's concern for the living conditions of the Chinese people. Humanistic ideas that promote human value, human dignity and human nature. Human rights awareness has become a worldwide issue. What dystopian novels reveal is the crisis of the "personal". Regardless of the Silver Age or the Iron Age, everyone in the mainstream group has lost their individual status and is in a enslaved position.
Human nature has encountered unprecedented suppression in this special era. This is totalitarianism, caused by the absolute power that is placed supreme. Wang Xiaobo used this special era of the Cultural Revolution as a breakthrough to reveal the absurd survival experience existing in the traditional national culture. The author reflected and criticized this absurd history.
The practical significance of reason and knowledge in his works. Rationality is not only the core of Wang Xiaobo's thought and philosophy of life, but also his character trait. He was originally a person who appreciated logic, mathematics, and science, and pursued rationality and knowledge throughout his life. This can be understood from Wang Xiaobo's thoughts and views in essays such as "Stories About "Errors"", "Science and Evil", "The Beauty of Science", and "Attitude towards Knowledge".
Wang Xiaobo takes the Cultural Revolution period as the background of his works, which is closely related to his worship of reason. Traditional culture takes morality as its purpose and analyzes the world from the perspective of moral values.
This view certainly has its progressive aspect, but this view is considered one-sided and harmful
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Xiaobo