Xiao JunChinese writer

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  • association with Xiao Hong ( in Xiao Hong )

    In order to avoid an arranged marriage, she left home in 1930 and started to lead a vagrant life. In 1932 she met the writer Xiao Jun; from that time on, she lived with him. She wrote her first short story, "Wang asao de si" (“The Death of Sister Wang”), in 1933.

  • contribution to Chinese literature ( in Chinese literature: 1927–37 )

    ...rise of a group of novelists from Northeast China (Manchuria) who were driven south by the Japanese annexation of their homeland in 1932. The sometimes rousing, sometimes nostalgic novels of Hsiao Chün and Hsiao Hung and the powerful short stories of Tuan-mu Hung-liang became rallying cries for anti-Japanese youth as signs of impending war mounted.

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