Su Manshu

Su Manshu was born in 1884 in Yokohama to a Cantonese merchant and a Japanese woman, a servant of the household (the sister of his father's Japanese concubine according to Renditions). A monk on several occasions, he frequented in Japan the revolutionary circles of Chinese students, wrote for the Shanghai press, and translated Byron and part of Les Misérables. A painter and poet, he learned Sanskrit and travelled as far as Java. He died in Shanghai in 1918 of a stomach illness, aggravated according to The Paper by excessive ice cream.

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• NarrativeThe Lone Swan斷鴻零雁記Su Manshu · 1912Literature