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Mao Dun, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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20th-century Chinese dramatists and playwrights
Chinese Marxist writers
Chinese male dramatists and playwrights
Commercial Press people
Ministers of culture of the People's Republic of China
People from Tongxiang
Short story writers from Zhejiang
Writers from Jiaxing

A New Account of the Tales of the World

A New Account of the Tales of the World, also known as Shishuo Xinyu, was compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing (Liu I-ching; 劉義慶; 403–444) during the Liu Song dynasty (420–479) of the Northern and Southern dynasties (420–589).

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze (born December 1, 1950) is an American poet, translator, and professor.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Ba Jin

Li Yaotang (25 November 1904 – 17 October 2005), better known by his pen name Ba Jin or his courtesy name Li Feigan, was a Chinese anarchist, translator, and writer. Mao Dun and ba Jin are 20th-century Chinese essayists, 20th-century Chinese novelists, 20th-century Chinese short story writers, 20th-century pseudonymous writers, Chinese male novelists, Chinese male short story writers and vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Bing Xin

Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900 – February 28, 1999), better known by her pen name Bing Xin or Xie Bingxin, was one of the most prolific Chinese women writers of the 20th century. Mao Dun and Bing Xin are 20th-century Chinese novelists, 20th-century Chinese short story writers and 20th-century pseudonymous writers.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China Writers Association

The China Writers Association (CWA) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC).

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Commercial Press

The Commercial Press is the first modern publishing organization in China.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Fiction Monthly

The Fiction Monthly (Xiaoshuo Yuebao; Original English title: The Short Story Magazine) was a Chinese literary journal published by the Commercial Press in Shanghai.

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First United Front

The First United Front (alternatively), also known as the KMT–CCP Alliance, of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was formed in 1924 as an alliance to end warlordism in China.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

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Hangzhou

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northeastern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. As of 2022, the Hangzhou metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of 4 trillion yuan (US$590 billion), making it larger than the economy of Sweden.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (more commonly,; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac: Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Jiaxing

Jiaxing, alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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League of Left-Wing Writers

The League of Left-Wing Writers, commonly abbreviated as the Zuolian in Chinese, was founded in Shanghai on 2 March 1930 and subsequently established branches in Beijing, Tianjin, and Tokyo, Japan.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.

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Literary realism

Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Lu Dingyi

Lu Dingyi (June 9, 1906 – May 9, 1996) was a leader of the Chinese Communist Party. Mao Dun and lu Dingyi are Ministers of culture of the People's Republic of China and vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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Lu Xun

Lu Xun (25 September 188119 October 1936), born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer, literary critic, lecturer, and state servant. Mao Dun and lu Xun are 20th-century Chinese essayists, 20th-century Chinese novelists, 20th-century Chinese short story writers, 20th-century pseudonymous writers, Chinese Marxist writers, Chinese male short story writers and short story writers from Zhejiang.

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Mao Dun Literature Prize

Mao Dun Literature Prize is a prize for novels, established in the will of prominent Chinese writer Mao Dun (for which he personally donated 250,000 RMB) and sponsored by the China Writers Association.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Mao Dun and Mao Zedong are Chinese communists.

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May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919.

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Midnight: A Romance of China, 1930

Ziye (子夜), or known by it English translated title as Midnight: A Romance of China, 1930, is a 1933 novel by Chinese author Mao Dun.

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Ministry of Culture (China)

The Ministry of Culture (MOC) was a ministry of the government of the People's Republic of China which was dissolved on 19 March 2018.

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, formerly Modern Chinese Literature (1984–1998), is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the culture of modern and contemporary China, with China understood not in a narrow, political sense (e.g., People's Republic of China), but in the sense of Greater China (e.g.

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New Woman

The New Women was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century.

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New Youth

New Youth or La Jeunesse (lit) was a Chinese literary magazine founded by Chen Duxiu and published between 1915 and 1926.

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Northern Expedition

The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang (KMT) against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Peking University

Peking University (abbreviated PKU or Beida) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China.

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Pen name

A pen name is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shěn

Shěn is the Mandarin Hanyu pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname.

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Shen Zemin

Shen Zemin (Jun 23, 1900 – November 20, 1933) was one of the earliest members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), elected to the 6th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1931. Mao Dun and Shen Zemin are people from Tongxiang.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries

The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries (最新支那要人伝) is a guide to prominent individuals in the Republic of China, compiled in Japan by The Asahi Shimbun newspaper during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tongxiang

Tongxiang City is a county-level city, part of Jiaxing, in northern Zhejiang Province, China, bordering Jiangsu province to the north.

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University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.

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Wei Wei (male writer)

Wei Wei (March 6, 1920 – August 24, 2008), originally known as Hong Jie, was a Chinese poet, a prose writer, a literary report writer, a journalist, a vice-editor-in-chief and the editor of various newspapers in China. Mao Dun and Wei Wei (male writer) are 20th-century Chinese journalists and Chinese male novelists.

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Wen Xuan

The Wen Xuan, usually translated Selections of Refined Literature, is one of the earliest and most important anthologies of Chinese poetry and literature, and is one of the world's oldest literary anthologies to be arranged by topic.

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Western literature

Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, and is shaped by the periods in which they were conceived, with each period containing prominent western authors, poets, and pieces of literature.

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Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province of China.

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Xu Dishan

Xu Dishan (given name:; pen name: Luo Huasheng;; 3 February 1893 – 4 August 1941) was a Chinese author, translator and folklorist.

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Ye Shengtao

Ye Shengtao (28 October 1894 – 16 February 1988) was a Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician. Mao Dun and Ye Shengtao are 20th-century Chinese journalists, 20th-century Chinese novelists, 20th-century Chinese short story writers, Chinese male novelists, Chinese male short story writers and vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 until his death in January 1976. Mao Dun and Zhou Enlai are vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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Zhou Keqin

Zhou Keqin (1937 – August 5, 1990) was a Chinese writer regarded as a representative of Scar literature. Mao Dun and Zhou Keqin are 20th-century Chinese short story writers, Chinese male novelists and Chinese male short story writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Dun

Also known as Chen Dehong, Mao Tun, Shen Dehong, Shen Yanbing, Yanbing.

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20th-century Chinese dramatists and playwrights

Chinese Marxist writers

Chinese male dramatists and playwrights

Commercial Press people

Ministers of culture of the People's Republic of China

People from Tongxiang

Short story writers from Zhejiang

Writers from Jiaxing

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