The famous Hong Kong writer Liu Yihuan died at the age of 99

Beijing News Express (reporter Luo Dong) Liu Yihuan, a famous Hong Kong writer and media person, died at the age of 99 at the East China Academy in Hong Kong at 2:25 p.m. on June 8. His wife, Ms. Lo Pei Yun, published the news in a obituary in Hong Kong.

Liu Yihuan, whose original name was Liu Tongxuan, was born in Shanghai on December 7, 1918, and published his first short story "Anna Floschi in Exile" in 1936, and wrote works such as "The Drunkard", "Opposite", "Temple", "Typing Mistake", "Island and Peninsula", "He Has a Sharp Knife", "Model Stamps and Ceramics" and other works. Among them, "The Drunkard" is known as China's first stream-of-consciousness novel, and together with "Opposite", it inspired Wong Kar-wai to make the movie "Fancy Years" and "2046".

In the novel "The Drunkard", Liu Yihuan tells the story of a new literary writer from Shanghai to Hong Kong, who faces difficulties because of his insistence on serious literary creation. The book Chinese Simplified Version of the Introductory Novel" from the inside out to comprehensively show the protagonist's despair of society, for human beings, for life, and even for himself, although he is dissatisfied with everything, he is powerless to fight, and can only escape and anesthetize his understanding of the truth with drunkenness. Before his death, Liu Yihuan himself devoted his life to serious literary creation, and in his view, a good literature needs to be both experimental and practical. Wong Kar-wai was also born in Shanghai and later went to Hong Kong to engage in artistic creation, and he paid tribute to the pioneer of the "Shanghai complex" in the ending subtitles of "Fancy Years".

In addition to being a writer, Liu Yiman is also an editor of newspapers and magazines. In 1941, after graduating from St. John's University in Shanghai, he went to Chongqing to edit the supplement of the National Gazette, returned to Shanghai in 1945 as the editor-in-chief of Peace Daily, left Shanghai in 1948 and moved south to Hong Kong, successively serving as the editor of newspapers and magazines such as The Hong Kong Times, Sing Tao Weekly, and Sing Tao Daily, during which time he also worked as a supplement editor in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. In 1986, he founded the monthly magazine Hong Kong Literature and served as editor-in-chief until 2000. The literary documentary "They Write on the Island" series of "Liu Yiman: 1918" records Liu Yiman's experience and creation with light and shadow.