MAO DUN


Meaning of MAO DUN in English

or Mao Tun orig. Shen Dehong or Shen Yanbing

born July 4, 1896, Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China

died March 27, 1981, Beijing

Chinese literary critic, author, and editor.

A founder of the League of Left-Wing Writers (1930), he served as minister of culture after the communist government was established (1949–64). Many Western critics consider his trilogy of novellas Shi (1930; "Eclipse") to be his masterpiece. English translations of his works include Spring Silkworms and Other Stories (1956) and the novel Rainbow (1992). He is generally considered China's greatest novelist of realism .

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