[3] In 1958, Nie Gannu as well as other famous poets, and senior revolutionist were expelled to the Great Northern Wilderness (北大荒).

[1] After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Nie turned to Hong Kong to run the Wen Wei Po newspaper.

[1] He met a lot of classmates and friends who were also very politically involved, and had made a huge impact on history.

Dang Xiaoping, who later became the leader for China, and Jiang Jingguo at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University.

[4] The government believed "the impurities" were harmful to maintain the main idea of "we-as-one", therefore wanted to "get rid of them".

[5] But In order to collect writing materials, he was sent voluntarily to the concentration camp to experience the life of Rightists.

[5] The Great Northern Wilderness was located in Heilongjiang, it was "the coldest and most deserted region in China" (192 Yang).

[5] They were forced to work "from sunrise until dark, not allowing breaks even in severe weather conditions" (192 Yang).

[5] During his time in the Great North Wilderness, Nie Gannu wrote a lot of classical style poems about his experiences, as well as on "critiquing the Anti-Rightist and the Socialist reality" (Wang 2017).