Beijing:Famed Chinese writer Wei Wei, who chronicled the Korean War, died of liver cancer here, the state media reported today.

He was 88.

The largely self-taught writer, best known for reporting from the front lines of the Korean War in the 1950s, died on Sunday.

His masterpiece, "Who Is the Most Lovable", an eulogy of the heroism and revolutionary spirit of the Chinese People s Volunteers serving in the Korean War, has been read by and influenced generations of Chinese people, Xinhua news agency reported.

Born in 1920 in a poor family in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan Province, Wei joined the Eighth Route Army at the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan in 1937 and became a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1938.
Source : PTI