Dai Houying
Dai Houying (; March 1938 – 25 August 1996) was a Chinese woman novelist, and one of the first Chinese writers to criticize the devastating decade-long Cultural Revolution. Stones in the Wall (人啊人) Her best known work is Stones in the Wall (人啊人|People, Oh People). “The novel [Stones of the Wall], published in 1980, was one of the first literary works to confront the excesses of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” An early edition describes the book as “The First Major Novel to Come Out of Contemporary China. Written by a former Red Guard and set mostly in Shanghai in the late 1970s, this is a novel of how the Cultural Revolution of 1967 and the fall of the Gang of Four in 1977 affected one woman, her husband and their friends.” The book tells the story of intellectuals named Zhao Zhenhuan, Sun Yue and He Jingfu in the Cultural Revolution, a period Dai personally experienced as a persecutor—a red guard. Biography Dai received her bachelor's degree of Chinese literature from East China Normal University in 1960. She worked as a literary critic based in Shanghai until 1969 when she was accused of being a rightist during the Anti-Rightist Campaign. Dai