Wen Yiduo

Wen Yiduo, whose real name was Wen Jiahua, was born in 1899 in Hubei. A pupil at Tsinghua school from 1912, he left in 1922 to study painting in the United States, notably at the Art Institute of Chicago, and returned in 1925 to teach at several universities. According to Renditions, he was close to the Crescent Moon group, wrote essays on poetry attentive to form, joined the Democratic League in 1944 and was assassinated in 1946 by the nationalist secret police.

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