Selected Works of Ye Shengtao

Author: Yang Jun
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Ye Shengtao (1894.10.28-1988.2.16), originally named Shi Shaojun, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. His father worked as an accountant for a landlord, and the family lived in poverty. In 1907, he entered Caoqiao Middle School and, after graduation, became a teacher at an elementary school. In 1914, he was dismissed from the school and, during his period of seclusion, published classical-style novels in magazines such as Laihou Zhou. In autumn 1915, he moved to Shanghai to teach Chinese at Shanggong School, affiliated with the Commercial Press, and compiled primary school Chinese textbooks for the press. In 1917, he was hired to teach at the fifth higher primary school in Wuxian County. In 1918, he published a vernacular short story titled Spring Banquet Trifles in Women's Magazine, Vol. 4, Nos. 2-3. In 1919, he joined the New Tide Society, an organization founded by students of Peking University, and published novels and essays in New Tide. In 1921, he co-founded the Literary Research Association with Zheng Zhenduo, Mao Dun, and others, and published works in Novel Monthly and Literary Weekly. In 1922, he published his first short story collection, The Veil. In 1923, The Weaver Girl was published, marking the first collection of fairy tales in China. In 1928, he wrote the outstanding novel Ni Huanzhi. From 1923 to 1930, he worked as an editor at the Commercial Press in Shanghai. In 1927, he began editing Novel Monthly. In 1930, he transferred to Kaiping Bookstore as an editor. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, his family moved inland, and he served as a professor in the Chinese Department of Wuhan University in Leshan. Later, he moved to Chengdu to oversee the editorial affairs of Kaiping Bookstore. In 1946, he returned to Shanghai. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Director of the State Publishing Administration, Vice Minister of Education, President of the People's Education Press, Director of the Central Research Institute of Historians, and Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
List of Works: The Veil (short story collection), 1922, Commercial Press; Snow Morning (poetry collection), co-published with Zhou Zuoren, Zhu Ziqing, and others, 1922, Commercial Press; Fire (short story collection), 1923, Commercial Press; The Weaver Girl (fairy tale collection), 1923, Commercial Press; Sword Sheath (essays), co-authored with Yu Pingbo, 1924, Fengfeng Press; Below the Surface (short story collection), 1925, Commercial Press; In the City (short story collection), 1926, Shanghai Literature Weekly Press; Turbulent Waters (children's opera), 1928, Commercial Press; Unsatisfied (short story collection), 1929, Commercial Press; Ni Huanzhi (novel), 1929, Kaiping; Family Reunion (drama), 1930, Novel Monthly Press; The Stone Statue of the Contemporary Hero (fairy tale collection), 1931, Kaiping; Footsteps (essays), 1931, New China Bookstore; Three Kinds of Boats (essays), 1925, Life Press; Practice Works from Unsatisfied Residence (essays), 1935, Kaiping; Ye Shengtao Short Story Collection, 1936, Commercial Press; Selected Works of Ye Shaojun, 1936, Myriad Press; Selected Prose of Ye Shaojun, 1936, Fuguang Bookstore; Collection of Ye Shaojun's Masterpieces (short stories and essays), 1936, Liangyou; Little Boat (fairy tale collection), 1936, Yilin Bookstore; Selected Works of Ye Shaojun, 1937, Global Bookstore; For War-Time Youth (essays), 1938, Dada Bookstore; Representative Works of Ye Shaojun, 1941, Santong Bookstore; Collection of Melancholy (novels and poems), 1943, Creative Literature Society; Ripples (short story collection), 1944, Yiguang Publishing House; West River Collection (essays), 1945, Wenguang; Masterpieces of Ye Shaojun (short stories and essays), 1946, Global Bookstore; Representative Works of Ye Shaojun (short story collection), 1949, Global Bookstore; How to Play (children's literature), 1947, Zhonghua; Mrs. Li's Hair (essays and short stories), 1947, Bowen Bookstore; Collected Works of Ye Shengtao, 1948, Chunming; The Briefcase (short story collection), 1948, Zhonghua; Short Story Collection of Ye Shengtao, 1954, Renwen; Selected Fairy Tales of Ye Shengtao, 1956, Children's Press; Collected Works of Ye Shengtao (Volumes 1-3), 1958, Renwen; Selected Works of Ye Shengtao, 1958, Hong Kong Xin Yi Publishing House; Selected Works of Ye Shengtao, 1959, Renwen; Struggle (short story collection), 1959, Renwen; Collection of Poems (Collection of Poems), 1960, Writers Publishing House; Volume A of Ye Shengtao's Prose, 1983, Sichuan People's Publishing House; Collected Prefaces and Postfaces of Ye Shengtao, 1983, Sanlian; My Life in Sichuan (essays and poems), 1984, Sichuan People's Publishing House; Volume B of Ye Shengtao's Prose, 1984, Sanlian; The Weaver Girl and Other Fairy Tales, 1984, Children's Press; Fairy Tales, 1985, Xinlei Publishing House; Selected Fairy Tales of Ye Shengtao, 1986, Jilin People's Publishing House; Representative Works of Ye Shengtao, 1987, Yellow River Literature; Collected Works of Ye Shengtao (Volumes 1-5), 1988, Jiangsu Education.