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= Shi Zhecun = Shi Zhecun (Dec 3 1905-Nov 19 2003), was born in Hangzhou ZheJiang province in China. He was a famous translator, author and educator. He was one of the earlist Chinese writers who write articles with modernism. Shi was neither a lefti-wing writer or a right-wing writer during the 1930 period. "The third category human", that's how Lu Xun talked about Shi Zhecun.

Shi Zhecun's writing style
Modernism is a branch of literature that represents the new style and new kinds of expression, and Shi Zhecun, is one of the greatest Chinese representative authors of modernism. Under the historical background happened in 1919, which is the May Fourth Movement, anti-feudal and   anti-old ideas became the main trend among the younger generations. During this period, more and more fictions about new thoughts or breaking the past were published. The General’s Head (1932) is one of them. Being influenced by Sigmund Freud, Shi’s articles emphasize on psychoanalytic, he uses such method to subvert the perception of history of ordinary people and attempt to give a new understanding of history.

Shi Zhecun's contribution
Shi worked as the cheif editor of Les Contemporains (Xiandai 现代 1932-1935), which is a great magazine that formed a complete system for modernist literature and influence modernism the authors even today.

short stories
The General’s Head (Jiangjun de tou 将军的头1932), An Evening of Spring Rain"(Meiyu zhi xi 梅雨之夕), Spring Festival Lamp(Shangyuan Deng上元灯）

Translation works
Pelle the Conqueror(By Martin Andersen Nexø 1910), Under the Yoke（By Ivan Vazov 1893）

Reference
Schaefer, William. “Kumarajiva's Foreign Tongue: Shi Zhecun's Modernist Historical Fiction.” Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 10, no. 1/2, 1998, pp. 25–70. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41490772. Accessed 4 Dec. 2020.

Rosenmeier, C. (2017). Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying. In On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s (pp. 24-43). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved December 4, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1pwt2dj.5