17 Facts About Yu Dafu

Yu Wen, better known by his courtesy name Yu Dafu was a modern Chinese short story writer and poet.

Yu Dafu was one of the new literary group initiators, and this new literary group was named the Creation Society.

Yu Dafu died in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies, likely executed.

Yu Dafu's father died when he was three, leaving the family poverty-stricken and destitute.

Yu Dafu received a number of scholarships through the Chinese government and went on to receive a traditional Chinese education in Hangzhou.

Yu Dafu was there only for a short period before he was expelled for participation in a student strike.

Yu Dafu then moved to Japan, where he studied economics at the Tokyo Imperial University between 1913 and 1922, where he met other Chinese intellectuals.

Yu Dafu published one of his earlier works, the short story Chenlun, his most famous, while still in Japan in 1921.

Yu Dafu was ashamed of this, and he used such a story to express a sense of national shame, but in fact, this story's background does not match the facts.

In 1923, after an attack of tuberculosis, Yu Dafu directed his attention to the welfare of the masses.

Yu Dafu later came in conflict with the Chinese Communist Party and fled back to Japan.

Yu Dafu expresses his thoughts and feelings through the protagonist in the story.

Yu Dafu's writing style changed from romantic individualism to collectivism, especially in new women's image expression.

Yu Dafu created an image of a proletarian woman who can strengthen the protagonist.

Yu Dafu's work is considered by leading scholars to be iconoclastic and controversial.

Yu Dafu believes this is a kind of thoughts and feelings that are not understood by other people.

Yu Dafu used this melancholy state of mind to express the degeneration of the characters in the short story.