Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t12.1

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Wen Yiduo (闻一多) was a well-known poet, scholar, artist and social activist of utmost integrity of the early 20^th^ century China, who, through his fiery speech focussing on democracy and nationalism, hit hard the repressive Guomindang regime of Jiang Jieshi, and consequently fell to the bullet of an assassin in 1946.