Zhang Tianyi (1906~1985) was a famous writer in modern China. The scientific name is Zhang Yuanding, the character Handi, the number one, the pen name Zhang Tianjing, TiechiHan and so on. Born in Nanjing, he completed primary and junior high school in Hangzhou, went to Beijing in the fall of 1925 and was admitted to Peking University the following year. In 1929, he officially began his professional writing career, joined the Left League in 1931, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he has been engaged in anti-Japanese rescue work and literary and artistic activities in Changsha and other places. After the founding of New China, he successively served as deputy director of the Central Literary Training Institute, member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, and editor-in-chief of People's Literature. Representative works include fairy tales "Dalin and Kobayashi", "The Secret of the Treasure Gourd", "The Bald King", the novel "Mr. Warwick", "Ghost Soil Diary" and so on. His fairy tales occupy an important place in the history of children's literature.
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