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 Tzu-p'ing (1893-?), author and geologist, was a founder of the Creation Society and a writer of popular romantic fiction. During the Sino-Japanese war, he served in the Japanese-sponsored government ofWangChingwei. Meihsien, Kwangtung, was the birthplace of Chang Tzu-p'ing. His father was a sheng-yuan in straitened circumstances who gave his son his early instruction in […]

Hsieh Ping-ying (1903-), writer and feminist, best known for her Ts'ung-chün jih-chi (Har Diary) which described her experiences with the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition. The youngest of six children, Hsieh Ping-ying came from an isolated and backward village in the Hsinhua district of Hunan. Her father, a classical scholar who held the […]

T'ien Han (13 March 1898-), playwright and pioneer of the modern theater movement in China and a founder of the Nan-kuo she (South China Society) and the League of Left-Wing Dramatists. He was also known for his film scenarios and song lyrics. During the Sino- Japanese war he revised and adapted the traditional Peking drama […]

Kuo Mo-jo 郭沫若 Orig. Kuo K'ai-chen 郭開貞 Pen. Ting-t'ang 鼎堂 Shih-t'o 石沱 Tu K'an 杜衎 Mai-k'o Ang 麥克昂 I K'an Jen 易坎人 Kuo Mo-jo (October 1892-), poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, translator, historian, paleographer, Creation Society leader, and Chinese Communist propagandist. After 1949 this versatile intellectual served the People's Republic of China as chairman of the […]