GuoMoruo

[[image:guo.gif width="110" height="137" align="right" caption="from Encyclopedia Britannica online"]]Guo Moruo (original named Guo Kaizhen)
Guo Moruo (郭沫若 Guō Mòruò, 1892-1978) was a well-known palaeographer, translator and autobiographer. As the child of a wealthy merchant he received a traditional education. After the completion of his school he abandoned his wife from an arranged marriage to study medicine in Japan. He married a Japanese woman and devoted himself to studying languages and literature. He was a poet in the Romantic style but also wrote plays on historical themes with historical characters. Along with Ya Dufu, Cheng Fangwu and Zhang Ziping, Moruo established the literary society, The Creation Society__.__ He was also the first president of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles founded in 1949. The Federation was founded at the First National Congress of Literary and Art Workers. Outside of the literature world, Guo Moruo held many positions in the People's Republic of China, including the presidency of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Works:
Chu Yuan, a play in five acts Five Historical Plays selected poems from The Goddesses

Video biography
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Works Cited:
 "Guo Moruo." ////Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online// //. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 03 May. 2011. 