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3 unusual facts about Wen Yiduo


John Leighton Stuart

Even Wen Yiduo, a scholar whom Mao Zedong and the Chinese communists often praised, expressed his respect and admiration for John Leighton Stuart in his famous last speech.

Wen Yiduo

In the same year he joined the Crescent Moon Society and wrote essays on poetry, mostly stressing that poetry should have "formal properties".

There he was able to continue to teach, this time in the wartime National Southwestern Associated University.


Crescent Moon Society

In addition to Xu Zhimo, its other members included leading author and educator Hu Shi, poet Wen Yiduo, writers Liang Shih-chiu and Shen Congwen, Rao Mengkan, and sociologist Pan Guangdan.


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