Chu Tzu-ch'ing (22 November 1898-12 August 1948), essayist, scholar, and poet, was head of the Chinese department at Tsinghua University for many years. He was best known for his distinctive pai-hua [vernacular] essay style. Although his native place was Shaohsing, Chekiang, Chu Tzu-ch'ing was born in Kiangsu. Both his father and his grandfather were minor […]
Chou Tso-jen Orig. Chou K'uei-shou T. Ch'i-ming H. Chih-t'ang Chou Tso-jen (1885-), essayist, scholar, and translator of Western works into pai-hua [the vernacular]. With his brother Lu Hsün (Chou Shu-jen, q.v.), he brought new prominence to the essay form in the 1920's and 1930's. Born in Shaohsing, Chekiang, Chou Tso-jen, like his two brothers, Lu […]
Yeh Sheng-t'ao (1894-), a writer of stories and an essayist noted for his high literary standards. He was a founding member of the VVen-hsüeh yen-chiu hui (Literary Research Society), which for the period of 1921-28 dictated through its influential Hsiao-shuo yüeh-pao [short story magazine] the major trends of modern Chinese literature. Yeh was also notable […]
Hsü Ti-shan (1893-4 August 1941), a founding member of the Literary Research Society and a noted writer of short stories, became the first professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong in 1936. Tainan, Taiwan, was the birthplace of Hsü Ti-shan. His father, Hsü Nan-ying, was a native of Taiwan and a junior official […]
Hsü Kuang-p'ing (1907-), was the wife of Lu Hsün (Chou Shu-jen, q.v.). After his death in 1936, she began to collect and edit his unpublished works to write articles about him. After 1949 she served the Central People's Government as a member of many committees and delegations. Little is known about Hsü Kuang-p'ing's background or […]
Hsieh Wan-ying (5 October 1900-), known as Ping Hsin, was a poet, essayist, and short story writer. A native of Minhou, Fukien, Hsieh Wan-ying was born into a prosperous family in Foochow. Her father, Hsieh Pao-chang, was an officer in the Chinese naval service. When Hsieh Wanying was only a few months old, her mother […]
T'ao Hsing-chih (1891-25 July 1946), educational theorist and reformer who based his ideas on those of John Dewey and Wang Yangming. His theories of "life education" were embodied in the mass education and rural education movements of the 1920's and in the work-study and "national crisis education" programs of the 1930's. Born into a family […]
Shen Yen-ping (1896-), known as Mao Tun, the foremost realist novelist in republican China. He ceased to function as a creative writer in 1949, and he served from 1949 to 1965 as minister of culture in the Central People's Government. Ch'ingchen, a suburban district of T'unghsiang hsien, Chekiang, was the birthplace of Mao Tun. He […]
Ch'ü Ch'iu-pai (29 January 1899-18June 1935), Communist writer, became vice chairman of the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist party and wrote many pamphlets and articles. He unseated Ch'en Tu-hsiu to become general secretary of the party in 1927, but was criticized and removed from office in 1928. He became prominent in the League of […]
Ho Ch'i-fang (1910-), poet, journalist, and literary critic, was a prize-winning poet in his youth and an admirer of Western literature. He later became a leading figure in the Chinese Communist cultural hierarchy and a close associate of Chou Yang (q.v.). Little is known about Ho Ch'i-fang's family or early life except that he was […]
