In Literature
There is a 1923 short story Chinese Story by Mikhail Bulgakov about a Chinese mercenary in the Red Army. The 1936 historical novel Names in Marble by the Estonian author Albert Kivikas describes the fate of some captured Chinese soldiers whose units were part of the invading Russian army in the hands of the Estonian patriots during the Estonian War of Independence.
Read more about this topic: Chinese In The Russian Revolution And In The Russian Civil War
Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)