Editing Mao Dun (section)

==Political life==
Inspired by the [[October Revolution]] of 1917 in Russia, Mao Dun took part in the [[May Fourth Movement]] in China. In 1920, he joined the Shanghai Communist Team, and helped to establish the [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) in 1921.<ref name=":0" /> At first, he worked as a liaison for the party. He also wrote for the party magazine ''The Communist Party''.

At the time, the CCP was allied with the Kuomintang in the [[First United Front]]. Mao Dun participated in [[Chiang Kai-shek]]'s [[Northern Expedition]] to reunite the country. He quit, however, when Chiang's [[Kuomintang]] [[Chinese Civil War|broke with the Communists]] in 1927. In July 1928, he went to Japan in order to take refuge. As he returned to China in 1930, he joined the [[League of Left-Wing Writers]].<ref name="Nyt0">{{cite news |title=Mao Dun, 85, a Writer Who Was a Minister Of Culture in China |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/28/obituaries/mao-dun-85-a-writer-who-was-a-minister-of-culture-in-china.html |access-date=16 September 2021 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=28 March 1981}}</ref> Later, China went to war with Japan and he actively engaged in resisting the Japanese attack in 1937. In 1949, the communist government took over and he was responsible for working as [[Mao Zedong]]'s secretary and Culture Minister until 1965.<ref name=":0" />