Cheng Chen-to (1898-17 October 1958), literary historian, bibliophile, and editor, made major studies of the history of Chinese vernacular literature, was prominent in the Literary Research Society, and edited the Hsiao-shuoyueh-pao (Short Story Magazine). In 1937 he became dean of the college of arts and letters at Chinan University. From 1954 to 1958 he served […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shu Ch'ing-ch'un (3 February 1899-October 1966), known as Lao She, novelist and shortstory writer with a flair for using the Peking dialect in a comic-satiric vein. During and after the Sino-Japanese war he also wrote propaganda plays. He was known by Americans as the author of Rickshaw Boy, an unauthorized and bowdlerized translation of his […]
Ch'en Yin-k'o 陳寅恪 (1890-), internationally known sinologist, produced many important works on early medieval Chinese history and on relations between the Chinese empire and neighboring areas beginning in 420. After long association with Tsinghua University and with the Academia Sinica's institute of history and philology, Ch'en was appointed to the chair of Chinese at Oxford […]
