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Wen Yiduo (; 24 November 1899–15 July 1946), born Wén Jiahuá, courtesy names Yousan, Youshan, was a Chinese poet and scholar.

Biography
Wen was born in Xishui County, Hubei. After receiving a traditional education he went on to continue studying at the Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
. In 1922, he traveled to the United States
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 to study fine arts and literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 in the Art Institute of Chicago
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. It was during this time that his first collection of poetry, Hongzhu (??, "Red Candle"), was published.






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Wen Yiduo (; 24 November 1899–15 July 1946), born Wén Jiahuá, courtesy names Yousan, Youshan, was a Chinese poet and scholar.

Biography


Wen was born in Xishui County, Hubei. After receiving a traditional education he went on to continue studying at the Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
. In 1922, he traveled to the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 to study fine arts and literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 in the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premiere fine arts colleges, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, The Art Institute of Chicago, but is not related to, nor should be confused with, the chain of schools known as The Art Institutes....
. It was during this time that his first collection of poetry, Hongzhu (??, "Red Candle"), was published. In 1925, he traveled back to China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 and took a university teaching post. In 1928, his second collection, Sishui (??, "Dead Water"), was published. His poetry is influenced by Western models. In the same year he joined the Crescent Moon Society
Crescent Moon Society

The Crescent Moon Society was a China literary society founded by Xu Zhimo in 1923, which operated until 1931. It was named after The Crescent Moon, a poem by Rabindranath Tagore....
 and wrote essays on poetry, mostly stressing that poetry should have "formal properties". He also began to publish the results of his classical Chinese literature
Chinese literature

Chinese literature extends back thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature fictional novel that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese....
 research.

At the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the twentieth century. From 1937 to 1941, it was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan....
 (World War II
World War II

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), he moved to Kunming
Kunming

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, Yunnan
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is a political divisions of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers ....
, and continued to teach in National Southwestern Associated University
National Southwestern Associated University

When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out between China and Japan in 1937, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nankai University, merged to form Changsha Temporary University in Changsha, and later National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming....
. He became politically active in 1944 and continued to be so until his death. His outspoken nature led to his assassination
Assassination

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 by secret agents of Kuomintang
Kuomintang

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, right after attending a gathering on 15 July 1946 in Kunming.

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