He Fengming (1932- ), a native of Huining, Gansu Province. After the founding of the PRC in 1949, He gave up the opportunity to go to university and joined Gansu Daily, a CCP newspaper founded in September that year.
In 1957, He and her husband, Wang Jingchao, who was also an editor of Gansu Daily, were labeled Rightists and exiled to work in the Shigong labor camp and Jiabiangou labor camp, respectively. Because of the harsh conditions at the Jiabiangou labor camp, Wang died of starvation in 1961. In the same year, He Fengming returned to work at the Gansu Daily in Lanzhou. During the Cultural Revolution, she was labeled a Rightist again, dismissed from her position, and sent back to her hometown for supervised labor.
After rehabilitation in 1978, He was assigned to teach at the Northwest Institute of Nationalities (now Northwest Minzu University) in 1979 until retirement. In her later years, He wrote and published Experience: My 1957, documenting her experiences in the Anti-Rightist Campaign. Director Wang Bing had made the documentary He Fengming about her, which was more than three hours long and mostly oral narrations of He.
