17 Facts About Liu Bannong

Liu Bannong or Liu Fu was a Chinese poet and linguist.

Liu Bannong made great contributions to modern Chinese literature, phonology and photography.

Liu Bannong studied in England and France from 1920 to 1925.

Liu Bannong gained his PhD in 1925 at the Institut de Phonetique de la Sorbonne, University of Paris, writing a dissertation on the phonetics and phonology of Chinese tones.

Liu Bannong returned to China in 1925, and began a university teaching career.

Liu Bannong taught in the field of phonology at colleges in Beijing, and taught Vernacular Literature in the Department of Humanities and National Literature at Peking University.

Liu Bannong collaborated with Li Jiarui to compile Songyuan Yilai Suzi Pu.

Liu Bannong was the elder brother of the musicologist Liu Tianhua.

Liu Bannong died of an acute illness after a linguistic research trip to the northwest, at the age of 44.

Liu Bannong began writing poetry in vernacular Chinese in 1917, and was credited with having coined the Chinese feminine pronoun ta, which differs from masculine ta and neuter ta only in writing, but not in pronunciation, and which he made use of in his poems.

In 1933 Liu Bannong conducted an interview with Sai Jinhua.

Liu Bannong wrote The Wife of Zhuangyuan: Sai Jinhua, which he called her "true story".

Liu Bannong suggested four areas of literary reform in 1917, and proposes to differentiate the concept of literature in Chinese from that of language by resorting to the English definition of literature.

Liu Bannong called for a photographic style which would be technically advanced but rooted in Chinese tradition.

Liu Bannong held the opinion that photography should express the author's conception and emotion.

Liu Bannong was an active member of the Beijing guangshe.

Liu Bannong created a new form of poetry, called unrhymed poems.