Mao Dun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mao Dun

Chinese writer

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1896

Place of Birth: Tongxiang, Zhejiang, China

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1981

Profession: writer, translator, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mao Dun (4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing), was a Chinese essayist, journalist, novelist, and playwright.
A 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and the Minister of Culture of People's Republic of China (1949–65), he is one of the most celebrated left-wing realist novelists of modern China.
His most famous works are Ziye, a novel depicting life in cosmopolitan Shanghai, and Spring Silkworms.
He also wrote many short stories. He adopted "Mao Dun" (Chinese: ??), meaning "contradiction", as his pen name to express the tension in the conflicting revolutionary ideology in China in the unstable 1920s.
His friend Ye Shengtao changed the first character from ? to ?, which literally means "thatch".