He used to be Lan Ping's husband
In 1987. Paris, France.
On this day, the correspondent of China News Service in France stood in Paris to set up a dinner party to warmly welcome the film delegation from the motherland visiting France. Zhang Jianping, director of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Factory, accompanied the delegation to visit France, and also attended the dinner party of the day and met Ma Jiliang and Chen Runqiong, who were invited to attend. During the conversation, Ma Jiliang said: "I heard that Shanghai has established the Association of Old Journalists, I have been engaged in journalism for decades, and I am also an authentic old journalist. Ma Jiliang was 73 years old when he said this.
The "Shanghai Old Journalists Association" was proposed by some old newspaper people in Shanghai in the previous year, that is, in 1986, and its scope is not very extensive. This word came from the mouth of the old man Ma Jiliang, who was in a foreign country, which made Director Zhang a little surprised that he was well-informed. Although the years have urged people to grow old, the old man in front of him still looks energetic and personable at first glance!
And this old man Ma Jiliang 39 years ago in China also had a pen name known to many people: Donner. Donner was once Lan Ping's husband. They joined in 1935, but broke up only a few months later. The flames of the War of Resistance were ignited, and Lan Ping, who rushed to Yan'an, changed his name to Jiang Qing.
As we all know, with the outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution", especially the "sudden rise" of Jiang Qing's political power, she was full of ambition and high spirits at that time, and she always felt that her early experience of mixing with the beach was too annoying. To this end, she not only killed her peer sisters who had competed with her on the screen and on the stage, but also showed no mercy to the friends who had held a group wedding with her and Donner. Donner, on the other hand, went from Hong Kong to the United States in 1948, on the eve of the establishment of the new regime, and soon to France.
Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement
Ma Jiliang, a native of Suzhou, was born in May 1914, his original name was Ma Jizong and Ma Jiliang, and he used the name Ma Shaozhang, and Tang Na was his pen name. His father, Ma Peifu, was a translator for foreign affairs at the Jinpu Railway Bureau, and Ma Jiliang was later praised for his English writing, probably related to the influence of his father, who knew English. Just like his mother Fei Wenying, who knew how to read and embroider, gave Ma Jiliang cultural influence from an early age, making him love classical Chinese poetry from an early age.
From 1930 onwards, Ma Jiliang began to publish essays and short poems in his hometown's Wuxian Daily. After the "918" incident, he joined the "League of Social Scientists" founded by the WuXian Communist Youth League Committee and some progressive youth in Suzhou, who often gathered to discuss state affairs and explore ways to save the people. Such an experience played a major role in the young Ma Jiliang's choice of life path in the future.
In the spring of 1932, the Wuxian County Party Committee and the Communist Youth League organization were destroyed, and Ma Jiliang fled to Shanghai to avoid being tracked down by the authorities. During this period, he frequently changed his name and was admitted to St. John's University that summer. Young Ma Jiliang Chinese good, and english is also good. Yao Sufeng, editor-in-chief of the "Daily Movie" of the "Morning Post", quickly noticed him, and from 1933 onwards began to ask him to write film reviews, which can be said to be Ma Jiliang's association with movies, and it is also the indiscriminate appearance of the pen name "Donner" in the newspaper.
In 1935, in China's first musical comedy film "CityScape", he starred in the intellectual Li Menghua, who made his screen debut brilliantly and was widely acclaimed, and "Donner" and his people were therefore known to more people.
Movie "Cityscape"
The same scene that became the "inability to let go" in Donner's life this year was his brief union with Lan Ping and the subsequent parting of the way. Ma Jiliang would never have imagined that it was this experience that would later defame his reputation and fabricate his shameless rumors. Those people completely ignored the fact that after he and Lan Ping completely broke up, he was recommended by a friend to edit the Shanghai edition of the "Ta Kung Pao" "Drama and Film" weekly, and at the same time served as the director general of the Dagong Readers' Association, carried out progressive literary and artistic activities, and donated money for the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement. In 1937, when China's all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, he went to the anti-Japanese front as a field commissioner of the Ta Kung Pao. After the fall of Shanghai, Ma Jiliang went to Wuhan with the Ta Kung Pao, where he served as a foreign affairs reporter, director of propaganda at the China Film Studio, and editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine China Film. Even so busy, he did not put down the pen in his hand, and passionately created the drama "Long Live China", which was performed by the "Dagong Theater Troupe" and starred Shu Xiuwen. This drama was performed five times in a row, and the scene was full, sensationalizing the three towns in Wuhan.
The following winter, Ma Jiliang evacuated Wuhan and detoured back to Shanghai via Hong Kong. Soon became private secretary and Chinese instructor for the British ambassador to China. At this time, he had begun to work underground against Japan. After 1939, Ma Jiliang, who had left Shanghai for Chongqing several times, organized the "China Amateur Drama Society" in Chongqing at the behest of Xia Yan, an underground communist party, and he and Feng Yidai served as the president and vice presidents respectively. Since then, it goes without saying that progressive plays have been rehearsed. Until 1943 he was invited by the British Embassy in Beijing to work for the British Information Service. With the help of this platform, Ma Jiliang publicized the deeds of the Chinese people to the world. In addition, this platform also helped him understand the situation in many Western countries, so he was eager to go on a field trip. Just when he had completed his passport and considered his trip, due to the victory of the War of Resistance, he was required to return to Shanghai to serve as the chief writer of the "Current Affairs News", and the matter of going to China was shelved. At that time, the owner of the "Current Affairs New Daily" was Kong Xiangxi, and because Ma Jiliang adhered to the position of democracy and progress, He Xiangxi could not tolerate it, and Ma Jiliang resolutely resigned in the following summer.
Ma Jiliang, who left the "Current Affairs News" newspaper, was soon invited by Yan Baoli, the general manager of Wen Wei Po, to become the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Together with Xu Zhucheng, chief writer, Eun Xiang, deputy chief writer, and Chen Yusun, he made Wen Wei Po a very popular newspaper and became a banner of the Shanghai Patriotic and Progressive Newspaper. On September 9, 1948, The Hong Kong Wen Wei Po was founded, with Ma Jiliang as editor-in-chief.
Love with Chen Runqiong
However, no matter how unhappy ma Jiliang was brought by the "Current Affairs New Paper", he would never have imagined that a press association activity he participated in in the newspaper in 1946 actually gave him the opportunity to meet a young woman who made him fall in love at first sight, she was Chen Runqiong. Chen Runqiong, whose father is a diplomat, worked as a journalist in the Shanghai French newspaper and the English-language Freedom Tribune after graduating from university, and knew English and French. After that, Ma Jiliang also confessed his admiration to Chen Runqiong. But Chen Runqiong did not accept the olive branch thrown by Ma Jiliang at that time.
In the spring of 1948, Chen Runqiong left Shanghai to work at the United Nations in New York. Therefore, at the end of the year, when the operation of Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po was on a normal track, Ma Jiliang also changed his original plan to go to Britain, and left Hong Kong for the United States as the newspaper's commissioner to the United Nations. This not only fulfilled his dream of going to the country, but also brought him closer to Chen Runqiong.
Since coming to the United States, Ma Jiliang initially worked in patriotic and progressive Chinese newspapers such as the New York Daily, during which time he was also hired to found the San Francisco "Chinese and Western Daily". His patriotism remains strong, as evident in his 1950 one-act play Before Returning Home. This one-act drama writes that zhang mou, an international student, and his wife are about to return to China from the United States and are eager to participate in the construction of new China. The character Zhang has this line: "Among the three of us, only I have been away from China for too long, and it has been almost four years." Although I saw some news about China in newspapers and magazines, in the end it was diaphragm and not enough, and after returning to China, I really had to learn from the people. This should also be the expression of Ma Jiliang's heart.
Ma Jiliang (Donner) and Chen Runqiong
Obviously, this drama is also a reflection of Ma Jiliang's thoughts and life. His talent and infatuation eventually won Chen Runqiong's heart. In the autumn of 1951, Chen Runqiong's mother died in Taiwan, and she was going to go to the funeral, and Ma Jiliang would attend the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, where they met and then returned to their homeland together. At this time, Chen Runqiong had decided to resign from the United Nations. But later, because she was not approved, it also affected her trip.
In 1952, Ma Jiliang and Chen Runqiong's love affair matured, and they were happily married in Paris. After marriage, they invested in a restaurant opened by a friend in Paris, and his original intention of returning to China to serve his motherland never wavered.
From the left: Tang Na, Ye Jianying, Luo Qingchang
On November 29, 2013, the Writers Digest newspaper reprinted the writer Ye Yonglie's article "Why Ye Jianying Received Donner" (hereinafter referred to as Ye Wen), and we know that on June 20, 1955, the Investigation Department of the CPC Central Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "Central Investigation Department") was formally established, and the first minister was Li Kenong, and the secretary general was Luo Qingchang. And when Donnas, the "overseas Chinese in France" who once left the party, not only "joined the party again!" He is also a special member of the Ccp and an important cadre of the Central Investigation Department in France. Ye Wen mentioned, "As for Ye Shuai, who was then vice chairman of the CPC Central Committee and presided over the work of the Central Military Commission, the Investigation Department of the CPC Central Committee was directly under his leadership." Because it is a secret work, Ma Jiliang will never reveal anything to his beloved wife who should keep it secret. This can also explain the reason why the whole family did not return to China that year. Obviously, the job there needed him.
Screenshot of writer's digest page
Their daughter was born in 1960. From her daughter's initial name, Yihua, and later changed her name to Yihua, you can also detect Ma Jiliang's longing for his homeland. In particular, he taught his daughter to learn Chinese from an early age, and explained Chinese culture, and he wrote in a poem: "Since I was a child, I did not know my father's kindness, and now I have a girlfriend to talk about myself." Drifting abroad for thirty years, the years of teaching Ru do not forget the book. So he insisted on communicating with his daughter at home with Chinese.
At the end of 1978, Ma Jiliang, who had been in China for decades, and his wife Chen Runqiong finally set foot on the land of the motherland. Donner and his wife did not appear in public on this trip, but for a few friends of that year, they still arranged for Donner to meet with them, and Du Xuan and Ye Lucy were one of them. Later, Du Xuan wrote the following text:
Ji Liang and Lucy were friends in their youth, and he had entrusted her with things in the past, and this time he entrusted Lucy to find for him the three multi-act scripts of "Long Live China", "Chen Yuanyuan" and "Shenglu" that he had published in the past. Lucy ran around and actually found all three of his scripts. For this, Ji Liang was very excited. This time Mrs. Ji Liang brought these three books back, and I saw Ji Liang write the following passage on the title page of the book for his daughter Yihua:
I have no property left for you, and even if there is a little, I hope you will dedicate it to the motherland. The only ones left for you at the moment are the three scripts I have recently found by my friends, although they are all outdated and very immature, but you can know and understand my consistent loyalty and love for the people of my motherland.
Remember your beloved daughter
Du Xuan pointed out that "this time Mrs. Ji Liang brought these three books back", and "this time" refers to Ma Jiliang's second trip back to China. It was September 1985, arranged by the Ministry of State Security, and Ma Jiliang returned to China again, this time with his wife and daughter. However, on August 23, 1988, Ma Jiliang died of lung cancer in Paris. A sentence in his will to his beloved daughter Yihua on the occasion of his death can well summarize his life, and that sentence is: To love the motherland!
Source: Writer's Digest WeChat public account Wen/Lu Qiguo