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Also Known As Lu Hsün • Zhou Shuren
Born September 25, 1881 • Shaoxing • China
Died October 19, 1936 (aged 55) • Shanghai • China
Notable Works “Diary of a Madman” • “The True Story of Ah Q”
Notable Family Members brother Zhou Zuoren
Subjects Of Study Chinese literature • fiction
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Chinese author
Guo Moruo
Guo Moruo
Chinese scholar
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Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author
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Bingxin
Chinese author
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Bian Zhilin
Chinese poet and translator
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Tillie Olsen
American author
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
Fløgstad, Kjartan
Kjartan Fløgstad
Norwegian writer
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
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Arthur David Waley
British translator
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Ouyang Xiu
Chinese author and statesman
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
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Bei Dao
Chinese author
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Baren
Chinese author and critic
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Hu Feng
Chinese literary theorist
Han Yu, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Han Yu
Chinese author

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