Liu Shahe, Date of Birth

    

Liu Shahe

Chinese writer and poet

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1931

Profession: writer, poet

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Liu Shahe

  • Yu Xuntan (Chinese: ???; 11 November 1931 – 23 November 2019), known by his pen name Liu Shahe (Chinese: ???), was a Chinese writer and poet.
  • The son of a Sichuan landowner who was executed in the Land Reform Movement, he began publishing in 1948 and became a professional writer in 1952.
  • He co-founded the poetry magazine Stars in 1956, but was denounced as a "filial descendant of the landlord class" when the Anti-Rightist Campaign began in 1957.
  • For the next two decades he performed hard labour and was exiled to the countryside until the end of the Cultural Revolution.
  • He resumed publishing in 1978, and his collection, Poems of Liu Shahe (1982), won the National Prize for Poetry.

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