Li Liewen was born in a declining feudal official family in Xiangtan County. /kloc-After graduating from junior high school at the age of 0/5, he went to Shanghai and was admitted to the compilation office of Shanghai Commercial Press to copy, sort out and proofread manuscripts. 192 1 summer, served as secretary to the president of Xiamen university. The following year, he returned to the Commercial Press and served as assistant editor of the Ancient Books Department. He wrote more than 65,438+00 short stories, and his later collections were published as The Boat. 1926 studying in Japan. 1927 returned to China and then went to France to study. 65438-0928 entered the graduate school of Paris University, majoring in French literature and comparative literature.
/kloc-in the spring of 0/932, he returned to China with his wife Yan. On the recommendation of a Paris teacher, he became the French editor of Hawass News Agency Shanghai Branch. In the same year, he was hired by Shi, the general manager of Shen Bao, as the editor-in-chief of Free Talk, a supplement of the newspaper.
He is determined to innovate and boldly reform, transforming the literary supplement compiled by Yuanyang Butterfly School, which only pursues "curiosity" and "recreation", into a literary supplement of new literature, actively promoting democratic and patriotic ideas and attacking corrupt current politics. He hoped that the reformed New Freedom Talk would contribute to the cause of "progress and modernization" in China, and extensively collect foreign manuscripts. Yu Dafu, Lin Yutang, Zhao Jiabi and others all joined the team of authors. His political stance and dedication have been supported by progressive writers such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun.
Lu Xun published many essays in Free Talk, and most of the articles in Pseudo-Free Book were first published in the supplement by him. He and Lu Xun became friends who never forgot those years; Free Talk's bold intervention in the current situation has aroused the jealousy of the Kuomintang Shanghai Special Party Department.
1934 In May, he was forced to resign as editor-in-chief of Free Talk, and with the help of Lu Xun and Mao Dun, he took part in the editing of the translation. 1936 founded Mid-stream, a bimonthly magazine which mainly published essays and essays, and continued to devote itself to editing and translation.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he returned to Xiangtan, Hunan; Later, at the invitation of Zheng, director of Fujian Provincial Department of Education, he went to the middle school of Fujian Provincial Department of Education as a Chinese teacher. The following year, the Fujian provincial government founded the improved publishing house in Yong 'an, the wartime capital, and served as the president and editorial director, and served as the provincial government counselor. He presided over the publishing house, and successively founded Improvement of Comprehensive Bimonthly, Modern Literature and Art, Modern Youth and Modern Children, Wartime Figures and Wartime Woodcut Pictorial. It has also published Improved Library, Modern Literature Series and World Famous Works Translation Series. For a time, Fujian became one of the most prominent areas in cultural work during the Anti-Japanese War.
1in the spring of 946, at the invitation of Chen Yi, Governor of Taiwan Province Province, he went to Taiwan to serve as vice president and editor-in-chief of Minsheng Daily. In the summer and autumn of the same year, he resigned because of disagreement with the authorities on the direction of running a newspaper and propaganda policy, and was appointed as a Chinese lecturer in the advanced class of Taiwan Province Province. 1947, Professor of Western Literature Department, College of Literature, Taiwan Province Provincial University, has been teaching for more than 20 years.
1972 65438+1October 3 1 died in Taiwan Province province at the age of 68.