Deng Tuo

Deng Tuo (Chinese: 邓拓; c. 1911 – May 17, 1966),[1] also known by the pen name Ma Nancun (Chinese: 马南邨), was a Chinese poet, intellectual and journalist. He became a cadre of the Communist Party of China and served as editor-in-chief of the People's Daily from 1948 to 1958. He committed suicide in 1966 following scathing criticism in the People's Daily, as the Cultural Revolution was beginning.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Deng.

Bibliography
  • Timothy Cheek, Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia, Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-19-829066-7
  • Roderick MacFarquhar: The origins of the cultural revolution, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-214997-0

References
  1. Timothy Cheek, Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia (Clarendon Press, 1997) p27, p283


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