Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t5.9

v2.c10.s2.t5.9

In 1919, he made the acquaintance of Zheng Zhenduo, Qu Qiubai, Geng Jizhi and Qu Shiying in Beijing while jointly editing the youth literature called *New Society*, which was a periodical published every 10 days, and began to be engaged in prose writing, with about 20 published works. In 1921, Xu Dishan, Mao Dun, Zheng Zhenduo, Wang Tongzhao and Ye Shaojun set up the Literary Research Association. In the same year, he published his first short story *Jivajivika Bird* in *Novel Monthly*, attracting a great deal of attention from the literary world. And then he consecutively published three short stories including *Businessman’s Wife* in the same magazine. In 1922, he published a short story *Laboring Spider* in *Novel Monthly*. In 1923, Xie Bing Xin, Liang Shiqiu and Xu Dishan went to America for studies, and published the short story *Goddess Lakshmi* in *Novel Monthly*. In 1924, he published short poems like *Looking at Me*, *Love Letter* and *Mailbox*, short stories like *Withered Flower* in *Novel Monthly*. Later, he met Lao She (a famous Chinese writer). In January 1925 his first collection of short stories *Laboring Spider* was published and in June, the prose collection *Raining in the Mountain* was also published. Since then, he had less literary creation but more academic works. In 1927, he published the poetry *My Patients* in *Novel Monthly*, and *In the Living Room of Premier Fei* in 1928. In 1930, he wrote children stories like *Firefly Light* and *M’yrtle*, and published them in 1941. In 1933, his second collection of short stories *Liberator* was published by Beiping (present-day Beijing) Xing Yun Tang Bookstore, and his short story *Heart of a Teenage Girl* was published in the monthly magazine *Literature*. In 1934, he published short stories *Pretended Person* and *A Woman for Two* in the magazine *Literature*. In 1938, he published one-act play *Heroine* in *Ta Kung Pao* mobilising Chinese people for Anti-Japanese War. In 1939, he published novella *Wang Guan* in 10-day periodical *Wind*. In 1940, the play-script *Murderer* was published in *Cosmic Wind* but the play-script *Mulan* was not published. In February 1941, he published the short story *Fish Gill in the Wind*, in the same year. Yu Dafu reprinted it in *Overseas Chinese Weekly* of Singapore.