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{{Short description|Chinese writer and politician (1915–2024)}}
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'''Ma Shitu''' ({{zh|s=马识途|p=Mǎ Shítú}}; 17 January 1915 – 28 March 2024) was a Chinese politician and novelist. He was president of the Sichuan Writers Association.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Xu Zhongzhi ({{lang|zh|徐忠志}})|url=http://www.chinawriter.com.cn/2009/2009-03-05/30276.html |script-title=zh:与时代同行 为人民写作——访老作家马识途 |work=chinawriter.com.cn |date=2009-03-05 |accessdate=2020-07-16 |language=zh}}</ref>
==Biography==
Ma Shitu was born in Shibao Township, [[Zhong County]], [[Sichuan]], on 17 January 1915.<ref>{{cite web|date=2022-02-23|script-title=zh:马识途：鲁迅是脊梁骨，巴金是良心-中华读书报-光明网|url=https://epaper.gmw.cn/zhdsb/html/2022-02/23/nw.D110000zhdsb_20220223_1-18.htm?div=-1|access-date=2023-02-27|website=gmw.cn|archive-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227023514/https://epaper.gmw.cn/zhdsb/html/2022-02/23/nw.D110000zhdsb_20220223_1-18.htm?div=-1|url-status=live|language=zh}}</ref> In July 1936, he entered National Central University, where he majored in the Department of Chemical Engineering. During school days, he joined the underground party organisation of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP). In March 1938 he joined the CCP. He founded the ''Public Newspaper'' with [[Hu Sheng]] in [[Hankou]], [[Hubei]]. In 1939 he was appointed party secretary of Western Hubei District. Because the party organization was destroyed by the [[Kuomintang]], he fled to Chongqing in 1941 and then was accepted to [[National Southwestern Associated University]]. In 1946 he became the [[Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary]] of Chuankang District.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
After founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he served successively as deputy director of the Organization Department of the CCP Western Sichuan District Committee, director of the Construction Department of Sichuan, director of the Construction Commission, secretary of the party group of the Southwest Branch of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Southwest Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, and deputy director of the Science and Technology Commission. He joined the [[China Writers Association]] in 1962. In 1972, he was deputy head of the Propaganda Department of CCP Sichuan Provincial Committee, and served until 1978, when he was appointed vice president of the Chengdu Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and its [[Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary|party committee secretary]]. On July 5, 2020, in Chengdu, Sichuan, Ma announced that he would no longer write.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Ma Zhongling |script-title=zh:106岁作家马识途宣布封笔，作品曾被改编为《让子弹飞》！ |url=http://culture.ifeng.com/c/7xw47VGt1LT |accessdate=2020-07-09 |work=ifeng.com|date=2020-07-05}}</ref>
Ma was a delegate to the [[6th National People's Congress|6th]] and [[7th National People's Congress]].
==Personal life and death==
Ma was twice married. His first wife was killed by the [[Kuomintang]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Wang Mengmeng ({{lang|zh|王萌萌}})|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/2018-10/19/c_1123580402.htm |script-title=zh:104岁马识途:“我们党找到了当代最好的带路人” |work=Xinhuanet |date=2018-10-19 |accessdate=2020-07-16 |language=zh}}</ref> He died at 19:25 on 28 March 2024, at the age of 109.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=zh:革命家、作家马识途去世，享年110岁，其小说被改编为《让子弹飞》 |url=https://news.ifeng.com/c/8YKJ55r1g2q |access-date=28 March 2024 |publisher=ifeng |date=28 March 2024 |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |script-title=zh:作家马识途去世 |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/20240329/80d02c3a960942d392ba111bdd3dd72b/c.html |work=Xinhuanet |date=2024-03-28 |accessdate=2024-03-29 |language=zh}}</ref>
==Works==
*{{cite book |language=zh |script-title=zh:马识途文集 |trans-title=Collected Works of Ma Shitu |year=2018 |publisher=Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House |location=Chengdu, Sichuan |isbn=9787541146848}}
*{{cite book |language=zh |script-title=zh:在地下 |trans-title=Underground |year=2019 |publisher=Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House |location=Chengdu, Sichuan |isbn=9787541154058}}
*{{cite book |language=zh |script-title=zh:找红军 |trans-title=Looking for the Red Army |year=2019 |publisher=Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House |location=Chengdu, Sichuan |isbn=9787541154041}}
*{{cite book |language=zh |script-title=zh:夜谭十记 |trans-title=Ten Amazing Stories |year=1983 |publisher=People's Literature Publishing House |location=Beijing}}
*{{cite book |language=zh |script-title=zh:夜谭续记 |year=2020 |publisher=People's Literature Publishing House |location=Beijing |pages= |isbn=9787020139262}}
*{{cite book |language=zh |script-title=zh:西窗琐言 |year=2019 |publisher=Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House |location=Suzhou, Jiangsu |isbn=9787559436061}}
==Adaptations==
His fiction, ''Stealing Official Position'' ({{lang|zh|盗官记}}), was made into [[Let the Bullets Fly|a phenomenally successful film]] by [[Jiang Wen]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Shao Ling ({{lang|zh|邵岭}})|url=http://www.chinawriter.com.cn/news/2010/2010-12-28/92819.html |script-title=zh:马识途《盗官记》 如何“让子弹飞”？ |work=chinawriter.com.cn |date=2010-12-28 |accessdate=2020-07-16 |language=zh}}</ref>
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[[Category:1915 births]]
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[[Category:People from Zhong County]]
[[Category:National Southwestern Associated University alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Sichuan]]
[[Category:Chinese novelists]]
[[Category:Delegates to the 6th National People's Congress]]
[[Category:Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress]]
[[Category:Chinese men centenarians]]
[[Category:Chinese Communist Party politicians from Sichuan]]