Writers highly regarded as literary giants other than Lu Xun and Mao Dun

Many in China, intellectuals or nonintellectuals, believe that one of the major reasons Lu Xun and Mao Dun stood out among their contemporaries was because both of them were Chairman Mao's favorite writers and were therefore heavily promoted. A few writers from the same period were equally, if not more influential, in the modern literary circle, and they were prolific. Because those writers were either persecuted under the Communist rule or died before the founding of the PRC, their works were banned or considered unfit for the masses for various elements until after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

As a matter of fact, Lu Xun and Mao Dun are less read in today's China than the following three.

Here are two of those writers not included in today's discussion but would have definitely been included in any such discussions in China.

1. Qian Zhongshu （钱钟书）(1910-1998)

2. Shen Congwen (沈从文)  (1902-1988)

3. Xu Zhimo (徐志摩) (Poet) （1896－1931）

The works of all the three writers were translated into many languages, including English.