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Korean War correspondent Wei Wei passes awayPosted by Eric Mu, August 26, 2008 4:25 PM
Renowned war correspondent Wei Wei () passed away at the age of 88. His obituary made today's newspapers, including Chinese Business View, two days after his death on August 24. Wei was best known for Who is the most lovable, news story about the People's Volunteer Army in the Korean War. Wei praised the army's soldiers as the "most lovable," an honorific for the PLA that is still in use today. After the article was published in the People's Daily on April 11, 1951, Mao Zedong issued an order that it be read by the entire PLA, and it has been included in junior high textbooks since the 1960s. Wei also authored poetry and fiction, and his novel The East won the Mao Dun prize in 1983. He last appeared in the media earlier this year as one of the authors of a criticism of Feng Xiaogang's war movie Assembly. Wei and other "old cadres" suggested that Feng's movie could potentially undermine the morale of the PLA. Also in the Chinese Business View:
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Comments on Korean War correspondent Wei Wei passes away
If you ever want to get a cheap laugh in China, refer to the Pee El Aye as "the most loveble." Works like a charm.
The Sichuan girls who got up to no good in Shaanxi were from Zhaojue county in southern Sichuan, a pretty rough place that also has a lot of drug problems. Guess they were getting revenge on behalf of all those women abducted by peasants to be wives... dragged off by the hair, one presumes...