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 […]

Ou-yang Yü-ch'ien (1887-21 September 1962), teacher, actor, playwright, and director whose career reflects the development of drama and cinema in twentieth-century China. Liuyang, Hunan, was the birthplace of Ou-yang Yü-ch'ien. His paternal grandfather, Ou-yang Chung-ku, was provincial treasurer of Kwangsi during the last years of the Ch'ing dynasty, and his maternal grandfather, Liu Jen-hsi, was […]

Li Shu-hua T. Jun-chang Li Shu-hua (1890-), internationally known physicist and educator and vice president of the National Peiping Research Academy from 1929 to 1948. The son of Li Wan-k'uei, a landowning farmer, Li Shu-hua was born in Changli hsien, Chihli (Hopei). He had one younger brother, Li Shu-t'ien. Beginning in 1896, Li Shu-hua studied […]

Li Shu-t'ung (1880-4 September 1942), pioneer of modern music and drama in China who became Hung-i, one of the most celebrated Buddhist clerics of his time. Tientsin was the birthplace of Li Shu-t'ung, the son by a concubine of Li Hsiao-lou, a chinshih of 1847. The elder Li was an adept both of the philosophy […]

Feng Tzu-k'ai (1898-), artist, essayist, and calligrapher, was best known for using traditional brush-drawing techniques to depict and comment on the contemporary scene. A native of Ch'ungte, Chekiang, Feng Tzu-k'ai was one of ten children. His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother. After attending primaryschool, he […]