Xu Zhimo
Wen Yuan-ning was the author of Imperfect Understanding (Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, 1935), a collection of seventeen profiles of prominent Chinese intellectuals. The essays in the book were excerpted from fifty essays that appeared in his column in The China Critic in 1934 called "Unedited Biographies" (later "Intimate Portraits"). His subjects included Hu Shih, Wu Mi, Xu Zhimo, Zhou Zuoren, Wellington Koo, Gu Hongming, Han Fuju, Ma Junwu, Mei Lanfang, George T. Yeh, Y.R. Chao, Emperor Puyi, Feng Yuxiang, Lim Boon Keng, Ling Shuhua, Wang Delin, Lao She, Wu Zhihui, Feng Youlan, and Liu E.