About the author of The Red Lens:

Gu Baozi, 1957, from Xinghua, Jiangsu. Member of Chinese Writers Association. Now he is a full-time creator of the Political Department of the Second Artillery Corps and a first-class screenwriter of the Second Artillery Television Art Center. He is the author of The Road of Wind and Rain in Mao Zedong's Last Seven Years, Red Wall Moment, Iron Blood N4A, China Girl in Nazi Concentration Camp, Zhu De, My Father, The Shadow of a Great Man, Love Beyond Blood, Insider's Talk, Walking Out of Zhongnanhai, Telling the Truth on the Red Stage, and Chunqiu of Zhongnanhai Characters, etc. He has successively won the national best-seller award, the "Five Ones" Book Project Award, the China Book Award, the First Book Award of the People's Liberation Army, and the "Huabiao Award" of China Film. Du Xiuxian was born in 1926 in Mizhi, Shaanxi. 1940 took part in the revolution, 1944 studied photography in Yan 'an Eighth Route Army Film Art Troupe, and studied under Mr. Wu Yinxian. He used to be the photographer of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army Guanzhong Front Field Army and the deputy head of the Photography Group of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the First Field Army. From 65438 to 0954, he was transferred to Beijing Branch of Xinhua News Agency as the head of the photography team and the central photojournalist of the photography department of Xinhua News Agency. From 65438 to 0960, he served as deputy head of the photography group of Xinhua News Agency in Zhongnanhai and head of the central news group of the photography department of Xinhua News Agency. 197 1 Deputy Director of Photography Department of Xinhua News Agency, Head of Central News Group and Head of Central Foreign Affairs Photography Cooperation Group. Deputies to the Fourth National People's Congress. 1980 deputy general manager of China photo agency, senior reporter of Xinhua News Agency. 1986 retired.