Mao Dun’s Former Residences

This is located at 13 Houyuan’ensi Hutong, Jiaodaokou in Dongcheng District. Mao Dun lived here from 1974 until his death.

Mao Dun’s Former Residences

Mao Dun (1896-1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong,also known as Shen Yanbing, a native of Tongxiang in Zhejiang Province. He was a writer and one of the forerunners of China’ s progressive modern literature. A student of Peking University, he joined the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1921. After 1949, he held the positions of the minister of culture, vice-chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and chairman of the Writers’Association.