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Mao Dun
Shen Dehong, best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, and literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his realist novels, including Midnight, which depicts life in cosmopolitan Shanghai. Mao was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and participated in a number of left-wing cultural movements during the 1920s and 1…
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Born 4 July 1896 · Died 27 March 1981 · Q358494
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1981· 1 entry
Died 1981-03-27.
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1965· 1 entry
Mao was replaced as minister of culture by Lu Dingyi
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1949· 3 entries
Career landmark: Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China (1949–1965).
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Mao Dun worked as Mao Zedong's secretary and Culture Minister
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Became active in several committees and he worked as the Secretary and then the Minister of Culture for Mao Zedong until 1965
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1937· 1 entry
Mao traveled to many places and started a literary magazine in Wuhan
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1933· 1 entry
Came his next work, Midnight, which gained great popularity, to a point that it was also published in French and English, and it allowed to develop a sense of revolutionary realism
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1930· 1 entry
Joined the League of Left-Wing Writers
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1923· 1 entry
But in 1927 he became the chief columnist of the Minguo yuebao (民国月报)
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1920· 3 entries
Joined the Shanghai Communist Team, and helped to establish the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921
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Was invited to edit a new column: The Fiction-New-Waves (小說新潮) in Fiction Monthly
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And a group of young writers took over the magazine Fiction Monthly, to publish literature by western authors, such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Byron, Keats, and Shaw, and make new theories of literat
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1917· 1 entry
And 1918, he wrote two editorials for Xuesheng Zazhi: Students and Society (學生與社會) and The Students of 1918, those were significant in stimulating political consciousness among the young educated Chinese
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1913· 1 entry
In which he studied Chinese and Western literature
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-07-04.
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