Poet, playwright and historian whose collection 女神 (1921) helped start modern Chinese free verse. He also wrote history plays such as 屈原, studied oracle bones, and after 1949 headed the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Guo Moruo served as president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for many years.
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His pen name 沫若 joins 沫水 and 若水, old names of two rivers near his home town 乐山. His courtesy name 鼎堂 makes him one of the 甲骨四堂, four oracle-bone scholars whose names all contain 堂.
