Mu Xin

Painter and poet

Wryly naming himself ‘a Robinson Crusoe of literature, a literary UFO’, Mu Xin surmounted his time. A graduate of Lin Fengmian’s Hangzhou Art Academy in 1948, he taught at high schools and worked in the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Institute. Then came the revolution, and imprisonment, and house confinement. After half a lifetime tormented and squandered, he lived in New York between 1982 and 2007, where he started publishing, with a vengeance, prose, poems and stories, becoming a literary sensation in Taiwan, then in mainland China. A rare stylist in the Chinese language and a resolute aesthete, he defied politically-induced linguistic deformation through his writerly practice, which springs out intact from the cosmopolitan tradition of his youth.

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Peter Behrman de Sinéty translator

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Tan-Ying Chou sinologist and translator

Fan Zhongyan poet and politician of the Song Dynasty

Annelise Finegan translator

Romain Graziani sinologist and translator

Han Fei thinker of the Legalist School during the Warring States

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Mingyuan Hu historian, writer and translator

Hu Shih philosopher, writer and politician

David Hume historian and philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment

Jean Izoulet philosopher

Jiang Yun novelist

Jean Levi sinologist and translator of Chinese classics

Liyine Levi-Wong translator

Liu Yiqing writer, statesman and patron during the Six Dynasties

Mencius philosopher during the Warring States, ‘Second Sage’ after Confucius

Gabriel Monod historian

Mu Xin painter and poet

Ouyang Xiu poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty

Qu Yuan poet and statesman during the Warring States

Isabelle Rabut sinologist and translator

Maël Renouard novelist, essayist and translator

Sophie Sa translator

George Sand novelist and critic

Shao Baoqing sinologist and translator

Shi Zhecun novelist, essayist and translator

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Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard journalist and translator

Hippolyte Taine philosopher, historian and critic

Wei Zheng historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty

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Stefan Zweig novelist, biographer and translator