Qu Bo

Qu Bo (Chinese: 曲波; pinyin: Qū Bō; born 15 July 1981) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Tianjin Teda in the Chinese Super League.

Club career

Qu Bo started his football career playing for Tianjin Locomotive's youth team where he was spotted by and then transferred to top tier side Qingdao in 2000. He would quickly establish himself as an exciting young player and go on to play in seventeen league games while scoring eight goals, which would be enough to personally win the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year award at the end of the 2000 league season. Qu would continue to be a vital member of the team and after playing in the 2002 FIFA World Cup where he would draw considerable interest from Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur where he had a month-long stint with them before leaving due to the lack of a work permit. On his return to Qingdao, he would show his importance to the team by helping the team win the club's first ever Chinese FA Cup at the end of the 2002 league season.

Qu Bo (novelist)

Qu Bo (Chinese: 曲波; pinyin: Qǔ Bō; 1923–2002) was a Chinese novelist. His name was also translated as Chu Po. Qu (曲), the family name, has meanings of curve, melody and tune. Bo (波) stands for ripples and waves. His first book Tracks in the Snowy Forest (林海雪原) made him one of the most popular authors at the time.

Life

Born in Zaolinzhuang Village (枣林庄), Huang County (now Longkou), at the north-east coast of Shandong province, Qu Bo’s early education was through a private school where he started to gain his sound knowledge of Chinese classical literature and succinct language skills. His father, Qu Chunyang (曲春阳) and mother, Qu Liushi (曲刘氏) owned a small business of cotton dyeing, which failed when western textiles poured into China.

In 1938, at the age of 15, he left home and fought in the war against the Japanese invasion (Second Sino-Japanese War). His name was changed from his childhood name Qu Qingtao (曲清涛) into Qu Bo by the officials of the Eighth Route Army. Qu Bo had further education at the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University in Shandong and became a journalist of an army newspaper, The Progress. The army turned into the People's Liberation Army after the Japanese surrendered, and Qu Bo continued to battle in the Chinese civil war in the northeast of China, protecting the regional civilians from robbery and killings by the regional bandits and brigands. In the army, he served as a young literacy teacher, a political commissar and finally a colonel. In 1946 he married Liu Bo (刘波) who was a head nurse of a hospital at the same army regional headquarters.