Zhou Libo

Zhou Shaoyi, who took the name Libo, after the English liberty, was born on 9 August 1908 in Yiyang, in Hunan. Coming to study in Shanghai, he joined the literary left there; he was imprisoned in 1932 for having supported a strike. He translated Soviet novels, then taught at Yan'an, at the Lu Xun Academy. In 1946 he joined the teams in charge of land reform in the Northeast, and in 1955 returned to his native region, which he took as the subject of his later books. He died on 25 September 1979.

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