Mao Dun, formerly known as Shen Dehong, whose real name is Yan Bing, was born in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, and his pen name is Mao Dun. /kloc-born in 0/896, admitted to Peking University Preparatory College in19/3, and worked as an editor and translator in the Compilation Institute of Commercial Press in19/6. 192 1 year, participated in the Shanghai * * * production group, initiated and organized the "Literature Research Association" for the early party member of China * * * production party, and advocated life realism literature. In the same year, he continued to compile the Novel Monthly, which was the first large-scale literary publication in modern China. In addition to publishing a large number of democratic and realistic academic papers and literary works, he also made outstanding contributions to the construction of modern new literature in China. 65438-0923 teaches novels in Shanghai University, and also teaches in Shanghai University and other schools. 1in August, 925, Chen Yun and other workers in the Commercial Press went on strike, demanding recognition of the trade union, improving living conditions and achieving basic victory. At the end of the year, he was elected as the representative and executive member of the Kuomintang Shanghai Party Department. 1926 went to Guangzhou to attend the Second National Congress of the Kuomintang. After the meeting, he served as Minister of Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Kuomintang. In March, he served as Minister of Propaganda Department of Kuomintang Shanghai Party Department. During the Northern Expedition, he served as the political instructor of Wuhan Branch of the Central Military and Political School, and later as the editor-in-chief of the Republic of China Daily in Hankou. He was wanted after the coup in April 12. 1After September, 927, he published novels such as Disillusionment under the pseudonym of Mao Dun, 1928 went to Japan, 1930 returned to Shanghai, and joined the Chinese Left-wing Writers' League with Lu Xun. 1932, the novel Midnight was completed and published by Ming Kai Bookstore. 1936 Life Bookstore published A Day in China edited by him, which has a wide influence among readers. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the magazine Literary Standpoint was founded at the invitation of Life Bookstore. 1938 was the dean of the College of Literature of Xinjiang University in winter, 1940 gave lectures at Lu Xun Art College in Yan 'an, and later went to Chongqing to be the standing committee member of the Cultural Workers Association. After the Southern Anhui Incident, he went to Hong Kong to edit Bi Tan. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War,/kloc-0 returned to Shanghai in May, 1946 to edit the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Tomb-Sweeping Day wrote plays before and after. 1947 served as the editorial board of Novel Monthly, 1949 February Vice Chairman of Ren Zhonghua National Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chairman of China Association of Literary Reformers. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), at the suggestion of Premier Zhou, he became the first Minister of Culture of China. He was also elected as the deputy to the National People's Congress, the vice chairman of the 4th and 5th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the honorary chairman of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, presiding over daily work, visiting, writing comments and supporting new scholars. When he was busy with government affairs, he was still obsessed with literary creation, and once wrote the novel Exercise, which reflected the image of cadres in the new period. Later, he began to write the novel Dawn with the theme of the socialist transformation of capitalist industry and commerce by the Party, as a sequel to Midnight, but it was not published. He died in 198 1. He has published novels and prose works such as Shake, Pursuit, Literary Standpoint, Rainbow, Threesome, and Mao Dun's Prose Collection. The novel Midnight was made into a film after the founding of the People's Republic of China.