Deng Tuo (Chinese: 邓拓; c. 1911 – 17 May 1966), also known by the pen name Ma Nancun (Chinese: 马南邨), was a Chinese poet, intellectual and journalist. He became a cadre of the Chinese Communist Party and served as editor-in-chief of the People's Daily from 1948 to 1958. He committed suicide in 1966 following scathing criticism in the People's Daily, as the Cultural Revolution was beginning.^{[1]: 27, 283}

• Timothy Cheek, Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia, Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-19-829066-7
• Roderick MacFarquhar: The origins of the cultural revolution, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-214997-0