Yao Sufeng

Yao Sufeng

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Yao Sufeng (1905-1974) was known as a "versatile" cultural man. He was well-known in journalism, literary and art circles and society in 1930s and 1940s.

He is an old newspaper man who works in the press all his life. Until 1973, he retired from the press. He was an advocator of the new tabloids and worked in them for most of his life. He likes and is good at editing supplements. There are so many supplements in his life that few can compare with them.

He was also a filmmaker. He worked in a film company in 1927. Later, he became a film critic, editor in chief of film magazine, screenwriter and director of film. He was active in Shanghai film industry before the Anti Japanese war. The daily film, a supplement to the morning post edited by him, cooperates with left-wing filmmakers and publishes a large number of progressive film reviews, which has played a significant role in promoting the progress and development of China's film industry.

He is also a writer in many fields of literature. He wrote essays, essays and column articles, but he also wrote and translated novels, current affairs reviews and new and old style poems. In addition to screenplays, he also wrote plays and Tanci.

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Yao Sufeng, Su Feng is a pseudonym and later became a proper name. He was born in Suzhou in November 1905 and died in Shanghai in August 1974 at the age of 69.

He graduated from Suzhou technical school in 1926. In his early years, he was one of the founding members of the star society of Suzhou Literature Association, publishing articles in Suzhou and Shanghai newspapers.

He entered the Shanghai Press in 1928 and successively served as a supplement to the Republic of China Daily and the people's daily. He is also an inspector of the Municipal Bureau of Education (Natural Science Education).

From 1929 to 1934, he worked as a screenwriter in Tianyi film company and star film company. During and after that, he edited more than ten screenplays, such as spring in the singing field, women's way, canchun, night party, flowers on the willow wall, salt tide, etc. He also edited and directed part of the youth line and daughter's classic,

From 1932 to 1935, he was the chief editor of daily film, a supplement of Shanghai Morning Post. He worked closely with left-wing and other progressive cultural people to publish a large number of progressive film reviews and some of the most important programmatic articles in the left-wing film movement. Because of its strong author line-up and rich content, the magazine is authoritative in the film industry and has a great influence on readers and film audiences.

From 1934 to 1935, he successively served as vice president of Xiaochen Bao and general manager of Xinbao. Committed to the establishment of a new type of small newspaper, which is characterized by rich and colorful content, fresh and elegant style,. Its unique layout design is elegant and beautiful, known as "Yao style layout".

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After the beginning of the Anti Japanese War, the pictorial attached to Xin Bao first published pictures of the generals of the Eighth Route Army and pictures of the Eighth Route Army

The photos of the front line had a great political influence.

After the fall of Shanghai, he went to Wuhan via Hong Kong, but the original plan of running a newspaper failed to come true. He returned to Hong Kong and served as the general manager of the Star newspaper from 1939 to 1941. This kind of evening paper, which is similar to the new Shanghai style tabloid, is more popular among intellectuals.

When the Pacific War broke out and Hong Kong fell into the enemy's hands, Hong Kong withdrew to the southwest rear. In 1942, he served as chief executive of Guangxi daily. Soon after, he moved to Chongqing. From 1943 to 1945, he was the main writer of Chongqing Xinmin daily, and once edited its supplements, such as "Western night talk", "Wanfang" and "drama and film". He also wrote dramas "son of Yu Gui" and "lotus in the fire"

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai and founded the world morning post. After this progressive newspaper stopped publication, he became the main writer, chief editor and supplement of southeast daily. During this period, he published the novel The Legend of dreams, which was one of the first translators to translate the works of Agatha Christie, a famous British inferential novelist, into China

After the liberation of Shanghai, from 1949 to 1950, he served as the deputy general manager of drama daily. He was once a representative of the first culture and art Congress in Shanghai. In the autumn of 1950, he returned to Xinmin Evening News until his retirement in 1973. He edited many supplements, wrote columns and articles, and wrote Tanci Pipa Ji and soushu yuan.

In 1973, he retired before the end of the cultural revolution. In August of the next year, he died of illness in Shanghai.

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