Guo Moruo

Guo Moruo was born in 1892 in Leshan district, in Sichuan. He studied in Japan, medicine according to the Swiss database “China and the West”, and in 1921 founded the Creation Society with Yu Dafu and others. A translator, notably of Goethe and Shelley, an author of historical dramas and a palaeographer, he took an interest in ancient inscriptions and after 1949 became a senior cultural official of the People's Republic, president of the Academy of Sciences according to the same database. He died in Beijing in 1978.

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• PoetrySelected Poems from The Goddesses女神Guo Moruo · 1921Literature