WRITER

Mao Dun

1896 - 1981

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Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981), best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his realist novels, including Midnight, which depicts life in cosmopolitan Shanghai. Mao was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and participated in a number of left-wing cultural movements during the 1920s and 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mao Dun has received more than 172,558 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Mao Dun is the 1,710th most popular writer (down from 1,653rd in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from China (down from 473rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Chinese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mao Dun ranks 1,710 out of 7,302. Before him are Shen Yue, Táhirih, Sheridan Le Fanu, Boris Akunin, Bernard Malamud, and Kateb Yacine. After him are Hadewijch, Lucinda Riley, Hermann Bahr, Pierre Plantard, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, and Lewis Mumford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Mao Dun ranks 84. Before him are Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Boris Skossyreff, Morarji Desai, Aspasia Manos, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Ruth Gordon. After him are Ludwik Fleck, Pavel Alexandrov, Iona Yakir, Hinrich Lohse, Wilhelm Ackermann, and Mir Jafar Baghirov. Among people deceased in 1981, Mao Dun ranks 56. Before him are Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Mike Hailwood, Christy Brown, Heinz Kohut, and Albert Cohen. After him are Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Josep Pla, Giuseppe Pella, Lotte Reiniger, Gunichi Mikawa, and Valeri Kharlamov.

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In China

Among people born in China, Mao Dun ranks 507 out of 1,610. Before him are T. V. Soong (1894), Dong Qichang (1555), Zhang Xun (1854), Sun Simiao (581), Shen Yue (441), and Zhang Chunqiao (1917). After him are Cao Kun (1862), Zhu Yujian (1602), Chen Kaige (1952), Gan Ying (100), Shing-Tung Yau (1949), and Yesün Temür (1293).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Mao Dun ranks 46. Before him are Eileen Chang (1920), Li He (790), Liu Zongyuan (773), Ba Jin (1904), Gampopa (1079), and Shen Yue (441). After him are Li Yu (1610), Xu Shen (58), Feng Menglong (1574), Ruan Ji (210), Watchman Nee (1903), and Fan Zhongyan (989).

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