Mao Dun (1July 4, 896-198 1 March 27, 2006), formerly known as Mao Dun, pen names: Mao Dun, Lang Loss,,, Zhi Jing, Pu Lao, Wu Ming, Shen Mingfu, etc. Born in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. China is a famous modern writer, literary critic, cultural activist and social activist.

Mao Dun was born in a family with novel ideas and received a new education since childhood. He was admitted to Peking University Preparatory School and worked in the Commercial Press after graduation. Since then, he has embarked on the road of reforming China's literature and art. He is a pioneer of the New Culture Movement and one of the founders of China's revolutionary literature and art.

Representative works include the novel Midnight, Spring Silkworm and the literary criticism Reading at Night.

198 1 03 14, knowing that he would get sick, Mao dun donated 250,000 yuan to set up the Mao dun literature prize to encourage the creation of outstanding contemporary novels.

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Mao Dun's representative introduction:

1, midnight

Midnight, originally named Sunset, is a modern novel by China, with about 300,000 words. Mao Dun began to write from June 193 1 year to February 5 1932, with a total of 9 chapters.

The novel takes 1930 semi-feudal and semi-colonial old Shanghai in May and June as the background, and centers on the national capitalist Wu Sunfu, describing all kinds of contradictions and struggles in China society at that time.

Midnight is the earliest novel in the proletarian revolutionary literature movement since the May 4th Movement. With Marxism–Leninism as the guiding ideology, the author stood at the height of the times and used the creative method of revolutionary realism to reflect the vast social life of old China in the early 1930s historically, concretely and profoundly, and successfully shaped the typical image of the national bourgeoisie.

The publication of Midnight paved the way for the development of proletarian revolutionary literature in China, and also marked the maturity of Mao Dun's creation. ?

2. Rainbow

Rainbow is a novel written by Mao Dun 1929, which depicts the story of a young intellectual who finally embarked on the revolutionary road after many twists and turns.

Through the protagonist's life track, this novel reveals the hard course of intellectuals from individualism to collectivism, from feudal system rebels to revolutionaries in the historical period from May 4th to May 30th. This novel fully shows that Mao Dun is a writer with strong rationalism.

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