WRITER

Yu Dafu

1896 - 1945

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Yu Wen, better known by his courtesy name Yu Dafu (December 7, 1896 – September 17, 1945) was a modern Chinese short story writer and poet. He was one of the new literary group initiators, and this new literary group was named the Creation Society. His literary masterpieces include Chenlun (沈淪, Sinking), Chunfeng chenzui de wanshang (春風沈醉的晚上, Intoxicating Spring Nights), Guoqu (過去, The Past), Chuben (出奔, Flight) and so on. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yu Dafu has received more than 72,092 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yu Dafu is the 4,257th most popular writer (down from 4,116th in 2019), the 853rd most popular biography from China (down from 794th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Chinese Writer.

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  • 49.61

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

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  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chen lun
1957
Correspondence
Conduct of life, Correspondence, History
1959
Xian shu
1941
Yu Dafu you ji
1948
Yu Dafu xuan ji
1951
Essays
Chinese Short stories
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yu Dafu ranks 4,257 out of 7,302. Before him are Bel Kaufman, Hwang Sok-yong, Anthony Hope, Titsian Tabidze, Penelope Delta, and James Blish. After him are Richard Beer-Hofmann, Guzal Sitdikova, Richard Pococke, Joachim Ringelnatz, Rube Goldberg, and August Ahlqvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Yu Dafu ranks 177. Before him are Lado Gudiashvili, J. Lawton Collins, Steponas Darius, Adhemar Pimenta, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Jessie Royce Landis. After him are Edvin Wide, Walter Lang, Sofya Yanovskaya, Gerardo Diego, Kathleen McKane Godfree, and Jaromír Weinberger. Among people deceased in 1945, Yu Dafu ranks 267. Before him are Ludwig Diels, Dobri Bozhilov, Hélène Berr, Pierre Cérésole, Xian Xinghai, and Eugen Bolz. After him are Richard Beer-Hofmann, Osip Brik, Reynold A. Nicholson, Maurice Sachs, Florence Bascom, and Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yu Dafu ranks 853 out of 1,610. Before him are Song Renqiong (1909), Yan Lianke (1958), Ma Duanlin (1245), Yu Rongguang (1958), Liu Yandong (1945), and Hwang Sok-yong (1943). After him are P. C. Chang (1892), Huang Fu (1883), Chen Zi'ang (661), Henry Luce (1898), Wang Yang (1955), and Zhong Nanshan (1936).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Yu Dafu ranks 98. Before him are Cui Hao (704), Taranatha (1575), Katherine Paterson (1932), Yan Lianke (1958), Ma Duanlin (1245), and Hwang Sok-yong (1943). After him are Chen Zi'ang (661), Mervyn Peake (1911), Dai Sijie (1954), Wen Yiduo (1899), Can Xue (1953), and Wang Guowei (1877).

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