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| Mao Tun |
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or Mao Dun (mou d n´) (KEY) , pseud. of She Yen-ping (sh ´ y n´b ng´) (KEY) , 1896–1981, Chinese novelist and Minister of Culture (1949–65). His fiction offers a sympathetic portrayal of working-class life and praise of revolution. Midnight (1933, tr. 1957), his most widely read work, is a naturalistic novel exploring in epic detail the commercial world of Shanghai. He is the author of Spring Silk Worms and Other Stories (1956). | 1 | | See studies by Y. Chen (1986) and D. D. Wang (1992). | 2 |
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