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Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981), best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his realist novels, including Midnight , which depicts life in cosmopolitan Shanghai .
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Mao Dun (Mao Tun July 4, 1896–March 27, 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong (Shen Te-hung), pseudonym Shen Yen-ping, a twentieth-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, journalist, editor and author, generally considered republican China's greatest realist novelist.
Mar 25, 2024 · Mao Dun (born July 4, 1896, Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China—died March 27, 1981, Beijing) was a Chinese literary critic and author, generally considered republican China’s greatest realist novelist. Forced to interrupt his schooling in 1916 because he ran out of money, Shen Yanbing became a proofreader at the Commercial Press in ...
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Jul 23, 2019 · Shen Dehong ( Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981), best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his realist novels, including Midnight, which depicts life in cosmopolitan Shanghai.
May 18, 2018 · Mao Dun was one of the few truly exceptional Chinese writers of the post-May Fourth (1919) movement. His massive literary corpus includes all forms of fiction: short stories, novelettes, and novels like Ziye (Midnight ), of Tolstoian scope.
Mao Dun (aka Mao Tun) was born in 1896 in Zhejiang Province, attending Beijing University between 1913 and 1915 but family financial circumstances made him drop out and become a professional translator. In 1920 he was a co-founder with Ye Shengtao of the Literary Association which advocated literary realism.
Mar 28, 1981 · Mao Dun, a writer who said literature should not be an ''intoxication'' but whose ideology-laced works showed a psychological penetration, died today, the official news agency Xinhua reported....
