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 […]
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 […]
Chang Mo-chun (4 October 1883-30 January 1965), feminist, educator, and poet, was the first principal of the Shen-chou Girls School, principal of the Kiangsu First Girls Normal School, and was a member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang and of the Legislative and Executive yuans in China and in Taiwan. Born into a […]
Yü P'ing-po (1899-), essayist, poet, critic, scholar, and professor. He was best known for his writings on the Hung-lou-meng and for the nation-wide campaign against them and him in 1954. A native of Tech'ing, Ghekiang, Yü P'ing-po was born into a family which had a long tradition of scholarship and literary endeavor. He was the […]
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 Hsin-ch'eng (5 July 1893-1960), editor and publisher. He was best known as the chief editor of the famous encyclopedic dictionary Tz'u-hai, published by the Chung-hua Book Company in 1936. Born at Hsüp'u, Hunan, Shu Hsin-ch'eng came from a long line of impoverished tenant farmers. His father had been to school for a few years […]
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 […]
Fu Ssu-nien T. Meng-chen Fu Ssu-nien (26 March 1896-20 December 1950), was a leader in the May Fourth Movement who became a historian and an administrator of historical scholarship. He organized the Academia Sinica's institute of history and philology and served as its director for more than 20 years. He acted as director of the […]
Ku Chieh-kang (1895-), a professor and historian known for his critically analytic investigations of Chinese antiquity. His best known work, the Ku-shih pien [discussions on Chinese ancient history], was published in seven volumes between 1926 and 1941. Born into a scholarly Soochow family, Ku Chieh-kang was exposed to the study of classical texts at a […]
