Gu cheng biography of michael

PERSONAL: Born 1956, in China; immigrated to New Zealand, 1988; died by suicide October 8, 1993, in New Zealand; son of Gu Gong (a writer and poet); married Xie Ye (a writer); children: one son.

CAREER: Worked variously as a carpenter, industrial painter, laborer, and editor.

University of Auckland, New Zealand, teacher of Chinese language and literature.

WRITINGS:

(With Shu Ting) Shu Ting, Gu Cheng shu qing shi xuan, Fujian ren min chu ban she (Fuzhou, China), 1982.

Zhongguo ming shu gu shi (literary criticism), Chang chun shu shu fang (Taibei, China), 1984.

Ming mo nong min zhan zheng shi (Chinese history), Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she (Peking, China), 1984.

Hei yan jing (poems; title means "Eyes of Darkness"), Ren min wen xue chu ban she (Beijing, China), 1986.

(With others) Chaoxian zhan zheng: kang Mei yuan chao zhan zheng di jun shi liao (five volumes; Chinese history), Heilongjiang chaoxian min zu chu ban she (Harbin, China), 1