Rou Shi
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| Born | Zhao Pingfu (赵平复) 28 September 1902 Ninghai County, Zhejiang, China |
| Died | 7 February 1931 (aged 28) Longhua, Shanghai |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable works |
February A Slave Mother |
Rou Shi (Chinese: 柔石; Wade–Giles: Jou Shih; 28 September 1902－7 February 1931) was a prominent left-wing Chinese writer and member of the May Fourth Movement. Executed in February 1931 by the Kuomintang government in Shanghai for his pro-Communist activities, he is considered one of the Five Martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers.
Rou Shi was born Zhao Pingfu (赵平复) on 28 September 1902 in Ninghai County, Zhejiang province. In 1918 he entered Hangzhou No. 1 Normal School in the provincial capital Hangzhou. After graduating in 1923, he became a teacher at Pudi Elementary School in Cixi, Zhejiang. In 1925 he published his first collection of short stories, Mad Man.
In 1925 Rou Shi studied briefly at Peking University, but returned to Zhejiang in the spring of 1926, teaching in Hangzhou and Zhenhai. In the summer of 1927 he returned to his hometown Ninghai and taught at Ninghai High School, a local Communist base. After the failed Communist rebellion in May 1928, he took refuge in Shanghai, where he was introduced to the leading leftist writer Lu Xun. Together with Lu Xun and others, he cofounded the Morning Flower Society (朝花社), which published several progressive journals. In January 1929 he succeeded Lu Xun as the editor of the journal Yu Si (语丝). During this period he wrote the novel February and another collection of short stories entitled Hope (希望). He also translated works by foreign writers such as Maxim Gorky.
In March 1930, the League of Left-Wing Writers was established in Shanghai. Rou Shi attended its inaugural meeting, and became an executive and standing committee member in charge of the League publication Meng Ya (萌芽). He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1930, and published the short story, A Slave Mother (为奴隶的母亲).
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