Writer, Poet. Born Zhou Shuren, he is considered as China's greatest writer of the 20th century. In 1899 and attended a mining school in Nanjing. In 1902 he went to Tohoku University to study Japanese and medical science. After working for several years as a teacher in his hometown and then as a low-level government official in Beijing, he returned to writing and became associated with the Chinese literary movement in 1918. That year, he published his famous short story “Diary of a Madman”. In the 1920s he worked at various universities in Beijing as a professor of Chinese script and literature. In the last several years of his life, the government prohibited the publication of most of his work, so he published the majority of his new articles under various pseudonyms. His other famous works include "The True Story of Ah Q" and "Medicine".
Writer, Poet. Born Zhou Shuren, he is considered as China's greatest writer of the 20th century. In 1899 and attended a mining school in Nanjing. In 1902 he went to Tohoku University to study Japanese and medical science. After working for several years as a teacher in his hometown and then as a low-level government official in Beijing, he returned to writing and became associated with the Chinese literary movement in 1918. That year, he published his famous short story “Diary of a Madman”. In the 1920s he worked at various universities in Beijing as a professor of Chinese script and literature. In the last several years of his life, the government prohibited the publication of most of his work, so he published the majority of his new articles under various pseudonyms. His other famous works include "The True Story of Ah Q" and "Medicine".
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