Mao Dun

Shen Dehong, who wrote under the name Shen Yanbing and then under that of Mao Dun, was born on 4 July 1896 in Tongxiang, in Zhejiang. He left his studies in 1916 for lack of money and joined the Commercial Press in Shanghai as a proofreader, where he became a translator; from 1920 to 1923 he edited the journal Xiaoshuo yuebao. A founding member of the Communist Party, he was in 1949 the first Minister of Culture of the People's Republic, was removed from the post in 1964, and died in Beijing on 27 March 1981; his savings funded the literary prize that bears his name.

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• Short storiesSpring Silkworms春蠶Mao Dun · 1932Literature