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Zeng Pu
Writer and translator from Changshu who continued A Flower in a Sinful Sea and founded the Novel Grove Press
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Zeng Taixuan · Dongya Bingfu · Taixuan · Niehai Hua Zuozhe
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Zeng Pu, from Changshu in Jiangsu, born in 1872, pen name Dongya Bingfu, was a writer, publisher and translator of the late Qing and the Republic. Around 1905 he founded the Novel Grove Press with Xu Nianci and others, and he translated and introduced French writers such as Hugo. In 1905 he took over the first six chapters written by Jin Songcen and continued the novel A Flower in a Sinful Sea, centred on the top graduate Jin Wenqing and the courtesan Sai Jinhua. In 1927 he founded the Zhen Mei Shan bookshop and magazine. He died in 1935.
Life and times
Dates 1872 - 1935