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Mao Dun. Shen Dehong ( Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 [1] – 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mao Dun (4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing), a 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and the Minister of Culture of People's Republic of China (1949–65). He is one of the most celebrated left-wing realist novelists of modern China.
Co-founder of The League of Left-Wing Writers and a member of the Shanghai communist team, Mao Dun was also one of the engineers of the May Fourth movement to debunk traditional world-views in favor of Western social thought.
Mao Dun's Fushi : The Politics of the Self Theodore Huters i Sensing some inadequacy in the standard characterization of Mao Dun's narrative work as formal realism, Yu-shih Chen, in her recently published Realism and Allegory in the Early Fiction of Mao Tun, seeks to establish that a major component of the author's early fictional writing
One of the leading authors of the early twentieth century May Fourth period, Mao Dun had a complicated relationship with both the Communist Party and the women’s liberation movement, and his fictional works reflect these twin concerns with revolution and gender.
