Liu Baiyu

{{Short description|Chinese writer (1916–2005)}}

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| name = Liu Baiyu

| native_name = 刘白羽

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| birth_name = Liu Yuzan (刘玉赞)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|9|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Beijing, China

| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|8|24|1916|9|2|df=yes}}

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| occupation = Novelist

| nationality= Chinese

| language = Chinese

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| period = 1949 - 2000

| genre = Novel

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| notableworks= The Second Sun

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Liu Baiyu ({{zh|s=刘白羽|hp=Liú Báiyǔ}}; 2 September 1916 – 24 August 2005), born Liu Yuzan ({{zh|s=刘玉赞|hp=Liú Yùzàn|links=no}}) in Beijing, was a Chinese writer who took an orthodox Communist line on writing issues. He opposed "Western bourgeois values", influencing Chinese literature.[https://books.google.com/books?id=EIllW6CT1LkC&pg=PA21 In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture By Geremie R. Barmé, pg 21]