Liu Cunren's father was a Guangdong scholar in 1898. 19 14 After graduating from Beijing Customs School, I worked in the tax department and settled in Beijing. When Liu Cunren was a child, he received a good education in traditional culture in Beijing. 12 years old went to Shanghai to study and liked reading new literature.
1935, Liu Cunren was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University from Shanghai. In the same year, Mr. Qian Mu, Luo Changpei, Zheng Tianting, Sun Jiedi and others published "The History of China Literature" for everyone to know.
1937 When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, Liu Cunren transferred to Shanghai Guanghua University, and two years later, he obtained a diploma from Peking University.
Liu Yusheng was a major member of Japanese puppet cultural organizations such as Shanghai Sino-Japanese Cultural Association. 1June 1942, 1654381October, and August of the following year, he attended the conference of writers of great east Asia held in Japan as a "Shanghai representative" and actively advocated "great east Asian literature". "He is an extremely rare writer who clearly advocates the idea of Sino-Japanese friendly coexistence and common prosperity in Greater East Asia in his works. From his works, we can see that he has mature thinking about this. This is most concentrated in the preface of his prose collection "Homesickness":' I think the noblest truth of being a man should be to go beyond the concept of repaying kindness with kindness, not only for a person, but also for a nation-state Furthermore, we should not only repay kindness with kindness, but also use the great spirit of feeding hungry tigers to save the miserable life of all mankind and the freedom and truth of saving mankind from war and oppression. "What he wants to say is that today, the people of China should also' transcend gratitude and resentment', forget Japanese aggression and killings, shake hands with the enemy and' repay kindness with kindness'. 1943, Liu Yusheng founded Talk about Wind and Rain, which became one of the major traitor literature publications after Ancient and Modern, founded by Zhu Pu and edited by Li Zhouan. "Its anti-communism and flattery to the enemy are obvious, and this is also rare in this traitor's publication" (Zhang Xiyu). 1944 received Taiping Bookstore with funds from the enemy and puppet troops, and published many works of activists in traitor literature. Liu Yusheng himself also created a large number of essays and novels, which were scattered in many magazines at that time, including the collection of essays "Homesickness" and the short story "Tarting the Wife". In nostalgic prose, there are works that obviously praise "Great East Asia War" and "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity". Because of what he did, he was called the "most active" among the "traitor literati" in Shanghai, and one of the few writers who were explicitly wanted as "traitor literati" by the China government after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, from 65438 to 0946, Liu Cunren went to Hong Kong to work and taught at Ren Huang College and Jeffrey Northcott Teachers College successively.
1957, Liu Cunren received his Ph.D. from the University of London, England, and wrote his thesis "The Influence of Buddhism and Taoism on China's Novels".
From 65438 to 0962, Liu Cunren went to teach in the Chinese Department of Australian National University. After sinologists Bi Hansi and Ma Yueran, he became the third Chinese-American professor in Australian National University and the first Chinese-American scholar to be the "academic leader" of Chinese Department.
1966- 1982, Liu Cunren is a professor at the Australian National University and head of the Chinese Department.
In mid-August 2009, he died in Canberra, Australia.