Ye Shengtao, whose original name was Ye Shaogou, was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. His father worked as a bookkeeper in a landlord's house, and his family was in a poor financial situation. In 1907, he was admitted to Caoqiao Middle School, the first public middle school in Suzhou, and worked as a teacher in a junior primary school after graduation. He was kicked out of school in 1914. During his solitary period, he wrote classical Chinese novels and published them in magazines such as "Saturday". In the autumn of 1915, he went to the Shang Gong School affiliated with the Commercial Press in Shanghai to teach Chinese and compiled Chinese textbooks for primary school students for the Commercial Press. In 1917, he applied to teach at the fifth higher primary school in Yongzhi County, Wu County. In 1918, he published his first vernacular novel "Spring Banquet Tales" in "Women's Magazine", Volume 4, Issues 2 and 3. In 1919, he joined the New Wave Society, a student organization of Peking University, and published novels and papers in "New Wave". In 1921, he organized and launched a literary research association with Zheng Zhenduo, Mao Dun and others, and published his works in "Novel Monthly" and "Literature Ten Weekly". In 1922, he published his first collection of short stories, "The Diaphragm". "Scarecrow" published in 1923 is my country's first collection of fairy tales. In 1928, he wrote the excellent novel "Ni Huanzhi". From 1923 to 1930, he worked as an editor at the Shanghai Commercial Press. In May 1927, he began to edit "Novel Monthly". In 1930, he worked as an editor at Kaiming Bookstore. During the Anti-Japanese War, his family moved inland and worked as a professor in the Chinese Department of Wuhan University in Leshan. Later he went to Chengdu to take charge of the editorial affairs of Kaiming Bookstore. Returned to Shanghai in 1946.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Director of the General Administration of Publishing, Vice Minister of Education and President of the People's Education Press, Director of the Central Research Institute of Literature and History, and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Literary works
Ye Shengtao’s main pen names include Ye Tao, Shengtao, Guishan, etc. He began to write classical Chinese novels in 1914 and began to publish works in vernacular Chinese in 1918. He created a large number of novels, essays, essays, poems and children's literature throughout his life.
"Spring Banquet" Ye Shengtao's first vernacular novel 1918
"Snow Dynasty" (co-written with Zhu Ziqing and others) (poetry) 1922
"The Separation" (novel collection) (1922)
"Scarecrow" (novel, early fairy tale collection) 1923
"Fire" (novel collection) (1923)
"Offline" (short story) 1925
"Ni Huanzhi" (novel) 1929
"Stone Statues of Ancient Heroes" (fairy tale) 1931
"Wen Xin" (Education) 1934 (co-authored with Xia Zhenzun)
"Weiyanju Practice" (Prose) 1935
"Shengtao Short Stories Collection" (short story collection )1936
"Selected Works of Ye Shaojun" (Selected Works) 1936
"Small Reading Guide Examples" (Education) 1946, (co-authored with Zhu Ziqing)
" "Research on Children's Literature" 1947
"Examples of Intensive Reading Guidance." (Education) 1948
"Miscellaneous Talks on Writing" (Education) 1951
"Selected Fairy Tales by Ye Shengtao" (Fairy Tale) 1956
"Ye Shengtao Published Collected Works" (Selected Works) 1958
"Resistance" (Short Story) 1959
"Night" 1959 "Ordinary Story" "1959
"Microwave" 1959
"Zi Cun Ji" (Poetry) 1960
"Mr. Pan in Difficulty" (Short Story) 1964
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"Ye Shengtao's Prose" (prose) 1983
"Me and Sichuan" (prose and poetry) 1984
"Article Speech" (co-authored with Xia Chuzun) (education )1997
"Seventy-two Lectures on Wenhua" (Education) 1999, (co-authored with Xia Chuzun)
Ye Shengtao has worked as editor, chief writer or editor-in-chief in the following newspapers and magazines:
"Saturday", "Shanghai Current Affairs News", "Shanghai Republic Daily", "Literary Weekly", "Zhengyi Daily", "Chinese Monthly", "Suzhou Review", "Women's Magazine", "Novel Monthly", "Middle School Students", "Enlightened Youth", "Chinese Writers", "People's Education", "Chinese Language", "Poetry", "Guangming", "Chinese Magazine", "Middle School Students' Wartime Semi-monthly" < /p>
Ye Shengtao's representative fairy tales:
"Scarecrow", "Traveler", "Little White Boat", "Stone Statues of Ancient Heroes", "A Seed", "The Emperor's New Clothes" ", "Rose and Goldfish", "Moon Girl's Marriage", "Mimosa", "Happy People", "Fang'er's Dream", etc.