Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Zhou Zuoren: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Chou Tso-jen • Zhou Kuishou
Born January 16, 1885 • Shaoxing • China
Died May 6, 1967 (aged 82) • Beijing • China
Notable Family Members brother Lu Xun
Subjects Of Study literature

Photos

Zhou Zuoren
See All Images →
default image
Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
default image
Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author
default image
Liang Shiqiu
Chinese author
default image
Lin Shu
Chinese translator
default image
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
default image
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera.
Marcel Proust
French writer
default image
Tillie Olsen
American author