Famous Chinese Media Personalities

Jin Yong was a Chinese wuxia novelist and essayist. He is credited with co-founding the popular Hong Kong publication Ming Pao, for which he served as the first editor-in-chief. Jin Yong is regarded as one of the most popular and greatest wuxia writers of all time. His works have been translated into several languages including Spanish, French, English, and Japanese.

A co-founder and major leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Duxiu is remembered for his association with the May Fourth Movement. Known as China’s Lenin among his followers, he also contributed to the revolution to overthrow the Qing government and promoted vernacular Chinese through the periodical New Youth.

Chinese scholar Liang Qichao had fled to Japan after the Hundred Days' Reform was halted. He returned to China after a 14-year exile, with the formation of the Republic of China. He later served as a professor. He is remembered for his Chinese translations of Western and Japanese books.

Liu Binyan was a Chinese journalist, author, and political dissident. He is best remembered for his memoir, A Higher Kind of Loyalty. Liu Binyan attracted a fair bit of controversy during his lifetime by publishing works like On the Bridge Worksite, which exposed corruption and bureaucratism. Among Liu Binyan’s other controversial works is The Inside Story of Our Newspaper.

Confucian minister and inventor Feng Dao lived during the Five Dynasties period and thus served no less than 10 emperors in his lifetime. He developed the existing block-printing process used in China and is largely believed to have been the first to make an effort to print Chinese Confucian classics.

Chinese author and critic Baren is considered one of the greatest modern Chinese literary figures from the 20th century. Initially a school teacher, he later joined the Chinese Communist Party. He had also served as the Chinese ambassador to Indonesia. He was executed during the Cultural Revolution.