Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (died 1981)

Mao Dun

Chinese writer (1896–1981)

Shen Dehong, 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 cosmopolitan Shanghai. Mao was one of the…