George Huck, British nationality, was born in 19 15. 1937 I graduated from Oxford University at the age of 23 and worked enthusiastically for China Industrial Cooperation Association. He Ke served as secretary and inspector of the Republic. By 194 1, the number of "Republicans" had grown to more than 3,000, becoming an important force in anti-Japanese rescue. 1945, his book "I saw the new China" was published in the United States and Britain. As the principal of Shuangshipu Peili School, he used the revolutionary spirit of Yan 'an and the ideological style of the Eighth Route Army to manage the school and educate students. 1945 On July 22nd, George Huck died of tetanus at the age of 30.

Chinese name: George Huck

Nationality: UK

Date of birth: 1965438+ Born in 2005.

Date of death:1July 22, 945

Occupation: secretary of the Republic, inspector

Graduate School: Oxford University

Main achievements: Strong support for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China.

Masterpiece: "I saw the new China"

The life of the character

1, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period

George Huck is an Englishman and was born in 19 15. 1937, 23 years old, just graduated from Oxford University. He came to China and witnessed the tragic scene of the Japanese occupation and war. "I can't leave these people." He decided to learn about the problems faced by China people on the spot in China. So he started to learn Chinese while working as a freelance writer in united press international, USA. He came to Hankou, China. At that time, Smedley knew that rewi alley was running for the cause of "Republic" and needed manpower, so he recommended He Ke. Alley felt that "he is so young and naive, I don't know whether he can settle down in the chaos in China, but behind his cheerful behavior, he can also feel a kind of tenacity and fortitude". A few months later, Huck passed Songjiazhuang from Beijing and suffered from typhoid fever. He was taken care of by Catherine Hall, a nurse sent by the Church of New Zealand. She often risked sending Bethune much-needed medicine.

He Ke stayed in the Eighth Route Army for a period of time after his illness, and then went south to Baoji "Gonghe" office as an inspector to report what he saw and heard abroad. China Industrial Cooperation Association (hereinafter referred to as "Republic") was initiated by edgar snow and Alley, and supported by Soong Ching Ling. Urging the Kuomintang to continue the war of resistance is still one of the main tasks of the Republic. "Republic" strongly supported War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China by resettling refugees, producing military supplies and civilian products, and raising funds to move to Yan 'an. George Huck started the work of Republic with great enthusiasm. He wrote to his mother and said, "It's time for me to work for China"!

At this moment, Huck has realized that he and Alley shoulder the same burden and are fighting with each other. After Huck arrived in Baoji, Alley was convinced that he had a capable assistant, and Huck successively served as the secretary and inspector of the Republic. "Where there is a' republic', there is a footprint of He Ke. He traveled all over the country. " By 194 1, the number of "Republicans" had grown to more than 3,000, becoming an important force in anti-Japanese rescue.

publish a book

Before he decided to "work together" with Ali Gump, he had been to Yan 'an. Although it was only a week, he felt deeply about Yan 'an spirit. "The tea sellers there refused to accept my tea money. They called me a friend. Before long, I was promoted to the level of' comrade'. There are as many students in Yan 'an as in Oxford, including 4000 boys and 0/000 girls, belonging to Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, Northern Shaanxi College and Yan 'an Art College. In addition to this school, there are branch schools in the whole district, and thousands of people study in the branch schools. I am now in the center of Red China. It is not very popular now, but it is undoubtedly the most powerful center of this anti-Japanese movement in the country. " In Yan 'an, he saw a large number of young people from all walks of life coming from all over the country. "It's amazing to be attracted here by people from Singapore, Manila, New Zealand and Hawaii."

Wherever he went, he saw that the people were engaged in the war of resistance despite their hard life and lack of food and clothing. This spirit made him respect, and he began to admire * * * for making the party. Later, Huck met Nie Rong Zhen of the Red Army. General Nie let Huck visit the whole area and sent him a companion. Four guards were in another village, and Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, received him kindly. 1945, his book "I saw the new China" was published in the United States and Britain.

During this period, he also published many anti-Japanese stories in support of China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression abroad.

In the early days of Peili School, as the principal of Shuangshipu Peili School, he used the revolutionary spirit of Yan 'an and the ideological style of the Eighth Route Army to manage the school and educate students. He also often teaches students to sing anti-Japanese revolutionary songs. Thanks to his hard work and outstanding talent, the school has developed rapidly.

Form a "family"

In the hot War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era, He Ke went deep into the sufferings of the people and forged a permanent relationship with the people of China. In an interview with the Eighth Route Army base in Taihang, party member, He Ke met a native named Nie, a native of Liaoning, who had four sons. Because the child's mother is seriously ill, there is no way but to send her to an orphanage. Heck and Alley not only personally took her to the hospital for treatment, but also took the child home from the orphanage. He Ke bathed the children and bought new clothes for them to change into. Shortly after the child's mother died of illness, Alex took the child back to Shuangshipu and lived with He Ke for a long time. At that time, the four Nie brothers were between 3 years old and 12 years old, so people of three different nationalities formed a special big family in the war-torn era in China. After liberation, the boss Nie Guangchun wrote a memoir "Two Foreign Fathers of Our Four Brothers", which recorded the deep fatherly love.

Due to the deterioration of the relationship between the Republic and the Kuomintang, Shuangshipu Peili School decided to move to Shandan, and 60 children almost lived on steamed bread, millet porridge and potatoes. This place doesn't grow vegetables, but they grow some vegetables themselves, which is enough for the winter. He Ke believes that in this era of advocating "using both hands and brains" and attaching importance to integrating theory with practice, students' view of labor and cultural theory learning are equally important. The school soon had wool mills, cotton mills, machinery factories, electrical appliances groups, automobile transportation groups, ceramics groups, chemical groups, paper-making groups, printing groups, glass groups, coal mining groups and experimental farms. Huck said in his letter to his mother, "It is very meaningful to connect your life with these children."

Funeral affairs

1945 On July 22nd, Heck died of tetanus at the age of 30. Before he died, he asked Alley to bring a pen and paper and wrote the words "Give everything to Perry School". The children put the school flag engraved with their own names in the coffin, and George Huck's "big family" sang the school song around the grave and bowed to him three times. Alley and her classmates buried Huck in a small clearing outside the south gate, hoping that Huck could hear their laughter every day. They designated this day as a holiday. Every Memorial Day, students would sit in front of Hoke's grave with delicious food and sing for him. This anniversary celebration lasted until Alley settled in Beijing in 1953.

Aili and Heke Cemetery is located outside the south gate of Shandan County, imitating Western-style architecture. Right in front of it is a marble-faced zhaobi, with the garden name of "Alley and Heke Cemetery" inscribed by Chu Tunan, and the words 13 inscribed by Deng Xiaoping, "The great internationalist warrior is immortal". The cemetery was originally built by Gansu Provincial People's Government in memory of George Heck, the founder of Peili Technical School. According to Alley's wishes,1April 1988, Alley's ashes were placed in the garden and renamed Alley and Heck Cemetery. Ailihe Heke Cemetery has become a patriotic education base in Gansu Province and a well-known cultural attraction at home and abroad.

Related works

The film Children of Huangshi, based on the real events during World War II, was released nationwide on April 3, 2008. On April 1 day, Children of Huangshi held its national premiere in Huangshi, Hubei. Two prototype old people attended the premiere and recalled George Huck.

Character prototype

In Children of Yellowstone, Huck not only takes care of the children in the orphanage, but also adopts four orphans on the way, the youngest of which is called "Old Four", which is also Huck's favorite. In real life, the four brothers (Nie Guangchun, Nie Guanghan, Nie Guangtao and Nie Guangpei) were adopted by George Huck in a tortuous process. Their father was * * * party member, who had to move to the liberated areas because of the pursuit of the enemy. During the meeting with He Ke, he was entrusted to take care of the children who stayed at home, so he sent his two eldest brothers to He Ke's school. Nie Guangpei and his third son lived with their mother temporarily because they were too young. A year later, my mother died of illness, and the third and fourth children, who were only three years old at that time, were admitted to school.

On April 1 day, Nie Guanghan and Nie Guangpei, who are over 70 years old, attended the premiere of Children of Huangshi. They conveyed the wish of two other old people to go to the movies, too. However, due to old age and physical reasons, they have to pay tribute to this foreign father who came from afar. Nie Guanghan added a lot of details that his younger brother couldn't remember because he was young, saying that the three-year-old four was pestering He Ke all day at school and became a complete drag. Nie Guangpei recalled that because he was timid, He Ke made an exception and took him to sleep in a bed, which was basically the same as in the movie. In the process of moving to Shandan, Heke always held him in his arms or let him enjoy the treatment of taking a car. It can be said that he is the luckiest child in the "Little Long March". Although more than 60 years have passed, the two old people are still excited about George Huck. They say Huck is a perfect man without him.

Call for peace

Children of Yellowstone is undoubtedly a mainstream commercial film. There is no doubt that the Hollywood team has the ability to make war scenes, but this film is not aimed at the cruel Sino-Japanese confrontation, but uses a lot of space to tell the story that happened behind the battlefield. Shortly after the film started shooting, the ruins of Nanjing City under the control of the Japanese army appeared in front of us, full of the breath of war. However, after the slaughter of a small group of people, the focus of the whole movie is on the hero, British journalist George Huck, who tells us how Huck took care of more than 60 orphans in China, built a warm home for them, and then fled the war with his children and moved to Shandan, Gansu.

Yellowstone is also quite touching. Australian nurse Li came to China, saw the harm that the war brought to the people, and decided to stay. She doesn't have any so-called great ideals, she just wants to make the children live better. Emily fell in love with chen hansheng at first, but Hanson chose to fight for his country at the expense of his little love. Later, Huck gradually fell in love with Li, who was brave and independent, and still created romance for Li in the absence of material resources. In the process of moving with the children, under the "letting love" of chen hansheng, Li and He Ke finally fell in love, but He Ke finally died in Li's arms because of tetanus.

At last, the film adopts the form of documentary, inviting four children who are now old people to reminisce about He Ke, which further deepens the authenticity and appeal of the film. The Children of Huangshi, which invested tens of millions, is actually more like a commercial war film full of humanistic care. Its focus is not on war, but on the harm it brings. It also reminds us not to forget history and international friends who have helped the people of China.

Film evaluation

Although Roger Spotti Wood has repeatedly stressed that this film co-produced by China, German and Australian is "a China film rather than a western film", it is still difficult for us to equate it with the "China" we feel and understand, even if it is based on a true story.

To some extent, it has all the elements of a mainstream Hollywood movie: the theme of redemption and self-redemption, love and sacrifice, the love of handsome men and beautiful women in troubled times, the magnificent and beautiful exotic wonders, the mysterious and deep cowboy hero, heavy music and all the other "China elements": Nanjing under the butcher's knife; An ancient town with beautiful scenery; "It's like returning to the desert cavalry in the14th century"; Silk road in the ancient road; An elusive * * * producer general like a knight; Elegant, kind and humiliating aristocratic woman; Arrogant and corrupt officers and men of the national army; Enlightened and friendly local officials, plus snow-capped mountains, yellow sand and tornadoes, it is hard to see such a film.

"Eight years of the Anti-Japanese War is a lifetime for George Hogg. A small sapling watered by the blood and passion of the China Revolution has grown into a solid tree. "

-rewi alley

Related anecdotes

The film is based on Revill's book Fruit, with the subtitle of the story of George Evan Hogg. When it was translated into Chinese, the title became the story of George Hogg from Oxford to Shandan. The word "fruit" in English comes from the Latin word "fruit". The meaning of this word, the most accurate translation in Chinese, should be called "the final result". The development of the plot also follows the classic design of Hollywood: "Breaking in-unable to get rid of-facing difficulties-understanding growth through experience-sacrificing". It focuses on the spiritual growth of George Evan Huck, a graduate of Oxford University. When Huck traveled around the world and arrived in Shanghai, it coincided with Japan's invasion of China. In his view, reporting the war is an exciting adventure. Huck really understood what war meant when he saw the crazy massacre with his own eyes. After the photos he took were discovered by Japanese, he was about to be executed. At the critical moment, "Jackie Chan (Chow Yun Fat) led by the * * * production party guerrillas saved him. He took Huck to a safe place-Huangshi.

In Huangshi, 60 boys with physical and mental impairment were abandoned in an orphanage. The trauma of the war made them tyrannical, stubborn and aggressive. George wants to see the "real war" in front of him, and the female nurse Li tells him, "This is war!" "

When Mitchell and Chen came back, George not only won the trust and love of the children by his own efforts. The Japanese are approaching day by day, and Chiang Kai-shek's army wants to turn the children into strong men. The local lady Wang Aunt Wang (Yang Ziqiong) rescued He Ke with money and body-He Ke came up with a bold idea-and crossed the snow-capped mountains to the famous Silk Road-Shandan, Gansu.

During the trip, He Ke and Chen disagreed on whether to involve children in war violence. The death of the most rebellious and hateful children strengthened his determination to lead these children away from the war. During the trip, he found that Li became an addict because she had no hope for the future.

They successfully arrived in Shandan after hardships. George and the children plan to build a new home and a new school. However, George was slightly injured during the trip, which led to tetanus and eventually died. But what he left to the children was the confidence and courage of life. And Li also found the meaning of life in love. She rejected Chen's request for war. She said, "I need them!" " "

At the end of the film, the old man who is still alive looks back at the young Englishman: "He is a perfect man without any flaws", "We will always thank and commemorate him", "None of our four brothers know their birthdays, and our birthdays are all July 22nd, the day Huck died".

Huck died on1July 22nd, 945. When I was 30. There are only 23 days before Japan surrenders. In Shandan today, there is George Hogg's tombstone. The inscription is a poem:

Colorful life

Brilliant and warm,

People have been pushing forward for it.

He's dead,

After that, I stopped fighting. In battle,

The life of the deceased,

But smarter.

Related books

title of a book

Topic: From Oxford to Shandan

Author: (New Zealand) Louis Avery

International standard book number:

Price: 0.66

Release location: Beijing

Publishing House: Beijing Publishing House

Date of publication (1): 1984

Pages: 18 1 page

Format: 20cm

General Note: This book is translated from New Zealand English version 1967.

The author translated the letter.

From Oxford to Shandan-The Story of George Huck 180. Extract parts from it

The author's letter to the translator about the Chinese translation;

Dear Comrade Duan Jin: George Huck has little publicity in China. His life experience is really rich and meaningful. This booklet I wrote for his mother can be used as an introduction to his life. I think that translating this book into Chinese and publishing it will inspire many people and strengthen the real cause of internationalism.

Brotherly

Louis Lane 1982. 1. 12

foreword

Time is hard to measure in years. Eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, from 1937 to1less than a month before the end of the Anti-Japanese War in August, 945, was a whole life for George Huck. The saplings watered with the blood and passion of China Revolution have grown into towering trees.

Many, many British youths died in China. Some of them were forcibly drafted into the army in the two Opium Wars or the wars that intervened in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and were sent to graves. They wore fancy military uniforms and their collars were buttoned tightly. They either died of heatstroke or cholera or were shot by angry people. In the coastal areas of China and Japan, there are also many people who died for colonialism. But George Huck belongs to another kind of Englishman. He died of his belief in the China Revolution. He touched the spark of the China Revolution and ignited a raging fire to clean up all the dirt in China, and George himself became a part of this growing raging fire.

Twenty years later, people who knew George well before he died still remember him vividly. Now, I am sitting in Beijing, looking through his letters and articles sent to me by his mother, and choosing the most important one to write a book. George studied the China Revolution, which is still of great significance to many people. He is the link between the people of China and the people of Britain. His fame will last forever, but the flashy titles of the old imperialists who claimed to "deal with" China have long been forgotten by the world, and their bronze statues have been melted down to make children's toys.

When George's trip to America was over, he and his aunt went to Japan. In Japan, he found that ordinary people believed in the Japanese government's propaganda and thought that the Japanese army was helping China. His aunt introduced him to a pacifist friend. These people are eager to show him the sanctity of Japanese life. Then he came to poor, war-torn and occupied Shanghai and was shocked to see those tragic scenes. The Japanese army is very different from the person he just said goodbye to in Japan. They burned down the surrounding villages and killed the cultivators with bayonets. The city is crowded with hungry and displaced people. They looked at each other, skinny and cold, and died one after another. The only way to live is to give in to the invaders, pick up scrap iron and make bombs to kill mainland compatriots. George came to the hospital with the wounded soldiers dying of hunger and pain. He witnessed thousands of families living on the stone pavement all winter. Those who have sacks as cushions are lucky. When a woman gives birth on a concrete road, she will be lucky if there is a newspaper covering her body to chat against the cold. Travelers reported the horror they saw and how children got beriberi because of lack of fresh food and vegetables.

George decided to stay in China for a few days to learn about the people of China and their problems. When he went to India and returned home, he said to menstruation, "Sorry, menstruation, I can't leave these people." He really never left them. With only a few pounds left, he set off for Hankou, the center of various forces at that time, and began to learn Chinese while working as a freelance journalist in united press international, USA.

George is on his way to the mainland. When he woke up, he suddenly trembled. It turned out that he had typhoid fever. It happened that a New Zealand nurse stopped at the same village on her way back to a small hospital in western Hebei. She wrapped George in a blanket and stuffed him into a cart. They bumped on the rugged mountain road and both fell asleep. Later, with great wisdom and courage, she made him lie on the saddle of the donkey and walk by himself, and finally arrived at the hospital after fainting. Catherine Hall (Chinese name: Mingqing He) visited New Zealand in the first decade after the establishment of the new government in Beijing. At that time, she was over 70 years old, but she was still an excellent young woman, with ardent faith in the cause of the people of China and admiration for the achievements made by the people of China. She went to Shijiazhuang to visit Bethune's mausoleum. During her stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, she supported Canadian doctors with drugs.

During his rehabilitation, George became familiar with various people's organizations that played an important role in China War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression: self-defense groups, farmers' associations, trade unions, women's associations and children's associations. One day, a group of people rode to the village and brought the British an invitation from Nie, commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei guerrilla zone. They took him to General Nie's headquarters. He visited the general's headquarters for a week, got a lot of inspiration, and then went to Fuping, where the red regime was located. On the way, they stopped to attend the "Civil-Military Cooperation Conference" and the larger "People's Congress". They then went north and found that the red government was originally hidden in an ancient temple.

Throughout the border region, monks in monasteries get along well with guerrillas, and this place is no exception. The tense life of student groups and delegations, the busy liaison work between the office and hundreds of government agencies following the enemy's heel, and the constant telephone and wireless telegrams, all these monks turned a blind eye and still carried out ancient and peaceful Buddhist activities!

George described the Red Army like this: "This is the best place in the world where I have lived, not comparable to Oxford University."

General Nie Jeangeorges visited the whole area and sent him a companion and four guards, so they mounted their horses and set off.

One day, a telegram said that a group of escorts had been arranged to cross the dangerous Zhengzhou-Taiyuan railway. George rides a Japanese Ma Zaishan lira, and he has the right to be a saddle. The horse trudged south. When he arrived at the headquarters, George found a beautiful pony waiting for him. He was always lucky, but the pony threw him to the ground, and his typewriter, camera, diary and film fell into the dirty stream.