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Zhou Zuoren

Died in 1967

Zhou Zuoren was born on 16 January 1885 in Shaoxing; he was the younger brother of Lu Xun. After the naval academy in Nanjing, he studied in Japan from 1906 to 1911 and returned with his Japanese wife. A professor at Peking University from 1917, he wrote for La Jeunesse (New Youth) and fell out with his brother in 1923. He remained in Beijing under the Japanese occupation, where he held office, was convicted of collaboration, was pardoned in 1949, and died in Beijing in 1967, after the violence of the Cultural Revolution.

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