Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 [1] – 27 March 1981), best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his realist novels, including Midnight , which depicts life in …

2025年3月23日 · Mao Dun (born July 4, 1896, Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China—died March 27, 1981, Beijing) was a Chinese literary critic and author, generally considered republican China’s greatest realist novelist.

茅盾（1896年7月4日—1981年3月27日），出生于 浙江省 桐乡县 乌镇，原名沈德鸿，字雁冰，笔名茅盾、郎损、玄珠、方璧、止敬、蒲牢、微明、沈仲方、沈明甫等。

Mao Dun (Mao Tun July 4, 1896–March 27, 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong (Shen Te-hung), pseudonym Shen Yen-ping, a twentieth-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, journalist, editor and author, generally considered republican China's greatest realist novelist.

1981年3月28日 · Mao Dun, a writer who said literature should not be an ''intoxication'' but whose ideology-laced works showed a psychological penetration, died today, the official news agency Xinhua reported.

2020年10月1日 · The article reflects on Mao Dun's creative and ideological impasse by teasing out the narrative loopholes of traditional voices and popular fictional registers in the modern epic.

2018年5月18日 · Mao Dun was one of the few truly exceptional Chinese writers of the post-May Fourth (1919) movement. His massive literary corpus includes all forms of fiction: short stories, novelettes, and novels like Ziye (Midnight ), of Tolstoian scope.

Mao is celebrated as the leading realist writer of modern China, especially for works such as Ziye 子夜 [Midnight] (1932). Born in Zhejiang, Mao Dun took up a position at the Commercial Press in Shanghai in 1916.

Co-founder of The League of Left-Wing Writers and a member of the Shanghai communist team, Mao Dun was also one of the engineers of the May Fourth movement to debunk traditional world-views in favor of Western social thought.

Mao Dun (aka Mao Tun) was born in 1896 in Zhejiang Province, attending Beijing University between 1913 and 1915 but family financial circumstances made him drop out and become a professional translator. In 1920 he was a co-founder with Ye Shengtao of the Literary Association which advocated literary realism. In the 1930s he became involved in ...