![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tsiang end up among the bohemians and leftists of Greenwich Village in New York? The early years of his life were quite difficult. Tsiang argued that he would face certain death either at the hands of the Japanese army, which had occupied parts of northern China by 1940 or at the hands of the Kuomintang Party (KMT) and its leader Chiang Kai-shek, who had violently purged leftists from the KMT in 1927. Thus, it is no wonder that he wrote several poems about his experiences on Ellis Island along with scores of letters to left-wing writers and artists to appeal for a stay of the deportation order. ![]() Two of his poems, Sacco,Vanzetti and Chinaman, Laundryman had been adapted as songs and performed by avant-garde composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, the step-mother of folk musician Pete Seeger. He had also appeared on Broadway portraying a boatman in Sergey Tretyakov’s play Roar China, which ran for 72 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre in 1930. In 1938, Tsiang completed a three-act play entitled China Marches On. He had written a volume of poetry, Poems of the Chinese Revolution (1929), three novels beginning with China Red (1931), The Hanging on Union Square (1935) and China Has Hands (1937). Tsiang was recognized in leftist cultural circles as a promising young talent. ![]()
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