Deng Tuo (; c. 1911 – 17 May 1966), also known by the pen name Ma Nancun (), was a Chinese

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

, intellectual and

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. He became a cadre of the

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and served as editor-in-chief of the ''

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'' from 1948 to 1958. He committed suicide in 1966 following scathing criticism in the

, 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 1966 deaths 20th-century Chinese poets Suicides during the Cultural Revolution Chinese scholars Writers from Fuzhou Poets from Fujian Chinese newspaper editors 20th-century Chinese essayists People's Daily people Year of birth uncertain Date of birth missing Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{China-scientist-stub