CIIC:Today's featured article/December 31, 2009

Hong Shen (Chinese: 洪深) was born on December 31, 1894 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was also known as Hong Da, Hong Bojun, Hong Qianzhai, and Qian Zai. He was an amateur actor during his school days. In 1913, he published the short story “Narrow Escape” and two years later the play A Pear Seller. He went to study pottery in the United States after his graduation from Tsinghua University in 1916, but he eventually studied literature and drama at Harvard University. (More ...)