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Wu Zuxiang (5 April 1908 – 11 January 1994) was a Chinese leftist writer. Born into a landowning family in Jing County, Anhui, he became a student of Chinese literature at Tsinghua University in 1930.

"Eighteen Hundred Piculs", first published in 1934, was Wu's masterpiece. It tells the story of the Song Clan which once enjoyed prosperity in Qing Dynasty, now impoverised and gathers to discuss about the disposal of 1800 ipculs of rice under the management of Song Botang. A gruop of peasants dressed in rags are about to plunder the 1800 piculs, this event finally put the clan into trouble. The story was later included in his collection "West Willow". In 1942 he published "Duck Bill Fall", a patrotic novel about the communist guerrilla in Anhui.

Wu paid a visit to the United States in 1946. After 1949 he served as a professoe of Chinese literature at Peking University, devoting himself to literary research.