Shen Congwen

Shen Congwen was born on 28 December 1902 in Fenghuang, in western Hunan. After primary school, he followed a local army and served in it as a secretary, then made his way alone to Beijing in the early 1920s. He taught in Shanghai, in Qingdao, in Kunming during the war, then at Peking University. After 1949, he attempted to take his own life, published no more fiction and devoted himself, in the Beijing museums, to the history of ancient costume, on which he published a study in 1981. He died on 10 May 1988.

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• Novel長河Shen Congwen · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature