In 1997, he visited Jiabiangou, there remains almost nothing. He began writing, publishing some short stories and moves toTianjin, where he still lives today and becomes a “professional writer”. He stays sixteen years in this farm until 1981, as a farmer then as a commercial clerk in the farm shop, later as an accountant and a teacher. There he meets former “rightists” and he hears for the first time the name of the Jiabiangou camp. Xianhui Yang was born in 1946 in Gansu, he finished high school in Lanzhou in 1965 and was sent “to the country side” in a farm in the Gobi Desert. Both films are directly inspired by a collection of short stories by Yang Xianhui.ġ – Stories by survivors called “fiction”: “The Ditch” is a film that deals with a camp for “reeducation through labor” and the famine of 1960. The narratives also preserve the record of a regime's unspeakable inhumanity towards its people, events which were unrecorded for decades.Two films by Wang Bing are just released: “Fengming, chronicle of a Chinese woman,” an amazing documentary film, three hours long, where a long time Communist recounts her life and the death of her husband in a camp, in a casual and controlled way, but where one can feel love and humanity. Moving and powerful, these stories are written as documentary literature, a form of reporting involving fictional elements created by Chinese journalists to disguise their subjects and escape retaliation from a still powerful government. The government then orchestrated a cover-up, rewriting the medical records of the dead and excising any mention of starvation. The situation became so ghastly that, by 1960, the sand dunes surrounding the camp were littered with corpses, and officials had to close the camp only 600 survived. Camp conditions were horrendous and treatment from the guards was brutal. There, prisoners were forced to grow crops and raise livestock in the harsh environment of the Gobi Desert.
Written in short-story form, Xianhui reveals the astounding tales of 13 survivors of a forced labor camp in the northwestern region of China. Imagine being hungry enough to eat rats, worms, or human flesh to stay alive these were the modes of survival for more than 3,000 of China's intellectual and political elites, known as ""Rightists,"" who became the victims of Chairman Mao's policies in the years 1957-1960.
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