# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mao-dun
# Generated: 2026-09-08T19:03:54.845Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mao-dun"
name: "Mao Dun"
slug: "mao-dun"
description: "Shen Dehong, best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, and 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. He was the editor-in-chief of Fiction Monthly and helped lead the League of Left-Wing Writers. He formed a strong friendship with fellow left-wing Chinese author Lu Xun. From 1949 to 1965, Mao served as the first Minister of Culture in the People's Republic of China."
tagline: "Chinese writer (1896-1981)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1896-07-04"
deathDate: "1981-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.3305
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.maodun.org"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump