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==Liu Na'ou==

Liu Na'ou is famous along with Mu Shiying for being New Perceptionists. He also founded the New Sensibility School. Of Taiwanese and Japanese descent he spent the first 16 years of his life in Taiwan. After that he studied Japanese literature in Tokyo where he was exposed to the Japanese New Sensibility School (Ying, pg. 115). After studying in Japan he moved to Shanghai in 1926 to study French at French Zhendan University. While in Shanghai he also opened two bookstores and started three journals. While studying he introduced the French writer Paul Morand to China and was also greatly influenced by Morand's work. Liu Na'ou wrote about the westernized "modern girl" and her relationship to urban modernization. He published only one collection of short stories called //Skylines of the City// (Dushi Fengjingxian). While quite active in the literary world he also was interested in film and wrote and directed a few movies. He was assassinated (allegedly by Shanghai gangsters) in 1940.

//Modern Chinese Literature vol. 9//. Boulder, Colo: Dept. of Oriental Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995. Print.
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