Deng Tuo (; c. 1911 – 17 May 1966),Timothy Cheek, ''Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia'' (Clarendon Press, 1997) p27, p283 also known by the pen name Ma Nancun (), was a Chinese

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, intellectual and

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. He became a cadre of the

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and served as editor-in-chief of the '' People's Daily'' from 1948 to 1958. He committed suicide in 1966 following scathing criticism in the People's Daily, as the

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was beginning.

Bibliography

* Timothy Cheek,
Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia
', Oxford University Press, 1998 * Roderick MacFarquhar: ''The origins of the cultural revolution'', Oxford University Press

References

1910s births 1966 suicides Republic of China poets Suicides during the Cultural Revolution People's Republic of China poets Writers from Fuzhou Poets from Fujian Republic of China essayists People's Republic of China essayists People's Daily people 20th-century essayists Year of birth uncertain Date of birth missing Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{China-scientist-stub