Chen Xuezhao

She joined the Qiancao Literary Society and published her first work Wo suo qiwang de xin funü ("The New Women of My Ideal") in 1923.

[2] In 1942 she attended the Yan'an Forum with Mao Zedong to determine Chinese communist policy on the Arts.

[6]: xxi  Mao published a paper entitled "Talks at the Ya'nan Conference on Arts and Literature".

This was an important document of national policy which Chen supported and this was the basis for a major cultural rectification programme.

Later that year, she joined the Chinese Communist Party and her application was swiftly approved with only a note to study more Lenin.

[2] Chen also translated some works by Balzac and Charles de Gaulle's L'Appel from French into Chinese.

Chen Xuezhao in 1936
Mao Zedong and others at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art including Chen (5th from the left in the third row)