Shen Ts'ung-wen ( 1 903-) , professor of literature, editor, and writer of fiction celebrating everyday life and the dignity of the common Chinese. Fenghuang, on the western border of Hunan, was the birthplace of Shen Ts'ung-wen. He was born into an old military family which had lost its money during the Boxer Uprising. Shen […]

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 […]

Wan Chia-pao (1910-), known as Ts'ao Yü, playwright whose best-known work was Lei-yü [thunderstorm]. After 1949 he devoted himself to cultural activities in the People's Republic of China. Wan joined the Chinese Communist party in 1957. Born in Ch'ienchiang, Hupeh, Ts'ao Yü came from a well-to-do family. He attended the Nankai Middle School in Tientsin, […]