Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t12.9

v2.c15.s2.t12.9

A real and objective assessment of the veteran poet and scholar got inordinately delayed, as alleged, due to the ban imposed on his writings by the Guo-min-dang Government. However, from the viewpoint of an impartial observer, it may be said that such a true and committed intellectual personality like Wen Yiduo to fight for the cause of the people and nation is to be rarely found in 20ᵗʰ century China, who, despite much admonition and threat to the safety and security of his personal life, continued to be vocal in freely giving vent to his most critical views against the authorities. This further clearly demonstrated that he was out-and-out a patriotic, selfless, tough-graded independent minded scholar and revolutionary democratic fighter, with an impeccable character and integrity of the highest standard. All of his creative works are now to found in four volumes, *Collected works of Wen Yiduo* (Wen Yiduo Quan-ji 闻一多全集).