Zhou Libo (; August 9, 1908 – September 25, 1979) was a Chinese novelist and translator.

Biography

Zhou was born Zhou Shaoyi () in

Yiyang Yiyang () is a prefecture-level city on the Zi River in Hunan province, China, straddling Lake Dongting and bordering Hubei to the north. According to the 2010 Census, Yiyang has a population of 4,313,084 inhabitants residing in an area of . The ...

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on 9 August 1908. He began to use the pseudonym Libo, of which sound is the resemblance of English word "liberty", in the 1930. Zhou taught himself English, then he translated some English versions of Soviet novels. He was imprisoned for supporting a workers' strike in 1932, on his release he joined the

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in 1934 and the

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in 1935. He served as a war reporter during 1937–38, and interpreter to Agnes Smedley meantime. Then he went to Yan'an and worked at Lu Xun Art Institute () in 1939. Zhou was bestowed the third class

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in 1951 for his work ''The Hurricane''. He had been targeted during the Cultural Revolution. Zhou was elected as the deputy of the 1st, 2nd, and

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Works

* 暴风骤雨 (Baofeng zhouyu) 1948, translated as''The Hurricane'' (Translated by Hsu Meng-Hsiung. Illustrations by Ku Yuan.) Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1955. * 山乡巨变 (Shanxiang jubian), 1958. translated as ''Great Changes in a Mountain Village'' (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1961).

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Biography of Zhou Libo
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