Ge Xin’s personal experience

Ge Xin’s primary school education was at Shanghai Xiangyao Primary School, and his secondary school education was at Nanyang Middle School, a prestigious school in Shanghai. Since childhood, Ge Xin has had an indissoluble bond with literature. Compositions are often used as model essays by teachers to explain in class. From the first grade of junior high school, Ge Xin fell in love with new poetry. He often saved a few copper coins for meals and bought old "Poetry" magazines discarded by others at second-hand bookstores. I often read until late at night. During this period, Ge Xin began to write many naive new poems.

In 1962, Ge Xin was assigned to the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Huaqiao University in Quanzhou, Fujian, which was well-known overseas. This may be a tease of fate. Ge Xin did not have any overseas relations at that time. Starting from the freshman year of college, Ge Xin studied and wrote a research paper on the famous Chinese poet Zang Kejia with the spirit of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. The title was "Song of the Soil" and the subtitle was "On Zang Kejia's Poems". The full manuscript is 400,000 words, three More than 300,000 words have been written with years of hard work. During the Cultural Revolution, they were burned to ashes.

During the Cultural Revolution, Ge Xin did not get involved in factional struggles. Instead, he hid in the ivory tower studying Mao Zedong’s poetry. Together with several classmates, he compiled the book "Explanations of Chairman Mao’s Poems". , also studied the poetry of Lu Xun.

In 1967, Ge Xin graduated from Huaqiao University. In 1968, he was assigned to one of China's largest arsenals in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, to engage in propaganda and education work. In the extremely harsh living and working environment, Ge Xin wrote diligently and completed the first draft of the translation of Chairman Mao's classical poems into free verse and the translation and annotation of Lu Xun's ancient poems.

In 1973, Ge Xin was transferred from Baotou City to Zhangzhou, Fujian Province as a middle school teacher. In his spare time, he continued to write and study the history of relations between China and Japan. During this period, he completed the first draft of "A Brief History of Sino-Japanese Friendship" and published poems and essays in provincial, regional and municipal newspapers and magazines. He also participated in the editing of literary and art publications in Longxi, Fujian, and edited the traditional scripts of Xiang Opera in Zhangzhou. At the same time, I also started trying to write scripts and novels. Ge Xin has a wide range of interests and has also dabbled in traditional Chinese medicine, fortune telling, cooking and gardening.

In September 1979, for the future of their two children, the family settled in Hong Kong. Ge Xin successively worked as a kitchen handyman, a restaurant waiter, a delivery porter, a rough worker in a plastic factory, a computer circuit board assembler, etc. In order to survive, Ge Xin used his expertise in studying Chinese medicine to become a quack doctor; In his spare time, he set up a stall in Victoria Park, Hong Kong and opened a clinic. During this period, Ge Xin wrote a large number of popular medical articles in Hong Kong newspapers and magazines. At the end of 1980, Ge Xin joined China Travel Service in Hong Kong as public relations secretary. He left China Travel Service in 1986 and set up his own Longtai Trading Company to engage in import and export trade. Since 1989, Ge Xin has invested and set up factories in China. While doing business, Ge Xin never forgot to write, and he has published "Hong Kong People's Medical Talk", "A Brief History of Sino-Japanese Friendship", "Annotations and Translations of Lu Xun's Poems", "My Path to Business" with subtitles "Selected Business Letters of Ge Xin", "Annotations and Translations of Mao Zedong's Poems", "Annotations and Analysis of Zhou Enlai's Poems", "Collection of Ge Xin's Essays and Speeches", "Under the Starlight" "Ge Immigrated to the United States in 1992.

Ge Xin is currently the Managing Director of US-China Commercial Bridge Management Investment Co., Ltd., the Managing Director of Gexin Business Consulting Center, the General Manager of Hong Kong Longtai Trading Company, the Northern California Shanghai Friendship Association, and the Northern California Association of the United States. Director of the Shanghai Office of the California Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, president and editor-in-chief of the "Voice of Chengde" newspaper, honorary editor-in-chief of "Confucian Business" magazine, and a member of the Hong Kong Writers Association. He also gave a tour lecture on "Where to Go - Talking about College Student Entrepreneurship" at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, Shanghai University and other universities, and became an overseas teacher and scholar respected by many mainland students.