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Dai Wangshu

Died in 1950

Dai Wangshu, born Dai Chaocai on 5 March 1905 in Hangzhou, studied literature at Shanghai University, then French at Aurora University. From 1932 to 1935, he stayed in France, at the Franco-Chinese Institute in Lyon, and visited Spain. A translator of more than thirty works, he was the first to introduce Lorca in Chinese. In Hong Kong, where he directed a literary supplement from 1938, he was imprisoned by the Japanese. He died in Beijing on 28 February 1950, of an accidental overdose of ephedrine.

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