Essayist and translator who argued with 鲁迅 in the 1920s over literature and class, then in Taiwan translated all of Shakespeare alone. His light essays 雅舍小品 are still widely read.
Liáng Shíqiū de sǎnwén 《 Yǎshè Xiǎopǐn 》 fēicháng yǒumíng.
Liang Shiqiu's essay collection Sketches from the Refined Hut is very famous.
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Lu Xun's reply to him, the essay 《“丧家的”“资本家的乏走狗”》, 'homeless', 'the capitalists' worn-out running dog', became a mainland middle-school text after 1949, so for decades that insult was the first thing many readers knew of him. He also edited the 远东英汉大辞典 dictionary.
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雅舍, 'the elegant lodge', was a humble six-room bungalow in 北碚, Chongqing, where he lived from 1939 to 1946. The 34 essays he wrote there became 《雅舍小品》.
