Definition von mao dun im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
or Mao Tun orig. Shen Dehong or Shen Yanbing born July 4, 1896, Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China died March 27, 1981, Beijing Chinese literary critic, author, and editor. A founder of the League of Left-Wing Writers (1930), he served as minister of culture after the communist government was established (1949-64). Many Western critics consider his trilogy of novellas Shi (1930; "Eclipse") to be his masterpiece. English translations of his works include Spring Silkworms and Other Stories (1956) and the novel Rainbow (1992). He is generally considered China's greatest novelist of realism