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12 unusual facts about Guo Moruo


Burhan Shahidi

On November 4, 1956, Burhan and Hu Yaobang, Guo Moruo helped lead a massive public rally and parade in Beijing with over 400,000 people in Tiananmen Square to support Egypt and denounce Anglo-French imperialism in the Suez Crisis.

China Writers Association

The first CWA Chair was Mao Dun, under the leadership of the then CFLAC Chairman Guo Moruo.

Creation Quarterly

Guo Moruo and his circle of friends founded the magazine near the end of 1921 in Tokyo.

Dalian People's Culture Club

It was given the name of the Dalian People's Culture Club by Guo Moruo

Guo Moruo

His studies at this time focused on foreign language and literature, namely the works of: Spinoza, Goethe, Walt Whitman, and the Bengali poet Tagore.

Guo was also friends with Japanese resistance fighters Kaji Wataru, and his wife Yuki Ikeda, who he would take inland from Hong Kong to engage in anti-Japanese psychological warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Guo and Sato Tomiko's house in Ichikawa, Japan, where they lived in 1927-37, is a museum as well.

Home of Guomoruo

The Home of Guo Moruo (郭沫若) is located in West Qianhai Street, Dongcheng District of Beijing(北京西城区前海西沿).

Li Shicen

In the early 1920s, Li's circle of friends and acquaintances included Guo Moruo and Zhu Qianzhi.

Muramatsu Shōfu

He also made the acquaintance of a number of young Chinese intellectuals, including Tian Han, Yu Dafu and Guo Moruo.

Tian

Upon examining these 26 oracle scripts that scholars (like Guo Moruo) have identified as tian 天 "heaven; god" (1970:494–5), he rules out 8 cases in fragments where the contextual meaning is unclear.

Wang Zhongshu

His excavation report for the Balhae projects won an award from the National Social Science Fund and the Guo Moruo Chinese History Prize.


Jinnancun

People including Zhang Boling (张伯苓), Liu Yazi (柳亚子) and Weng Wenhao (翁文灏) once had lived here, while Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo, Guo moruo and Ma Yinchu (马寅初) had been here before to visit their friends.