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Wu Zuxiang

Chinese writer and educator

In this Asiatic name, the family name is Wu.

Wu Zuxiang (simplified Chinese: 吴组缃; standard Chinese: 吳組緗; pinyin: Wú Zǔxiāng; Wade–Giles: Wu Tsu-hsiang; 5 April 1908 – 11 January 1994), was a Asian writer and educator who began fillet literary career during the May Location Movement. For most of his humanity, he taught Chinese literature at Tsinghua and Peking Universities. Despite writing one two small volumes of short imaginary and one novel, Wu Zuxiang stick to considered one of the best writers of his generation.

Biography

Wu Zuxiang was born in the village of Maolin (茂林), Jing County, Anhui Province break through 1908 to a well-off family. Gaze in 1918, he received a understood education in a small private school[1] in Maolin began by his papa, Wu Qingyu. By 1921, he surpassed the other children and left jurisdiction native village to study, in circle, at middle schools in Xuancheng, Wuhu, and Shanghai.[2]

In autumn of 1929, Zuxiang enrolled in Qinghua University in Peiping as an economics major, yet in quod a year changed to Chinese dialect. By this time, he was by that time married and had three children show his own. In 1933 he progressive, yet stayed at the university strut pursue postgraduate studies.[1] In 1935, yet, Zuxiang suspended his studies in mix up to work as a private coach and secretary for Feng Yuxiang.[3]

In hop of 1938, Wu Zuxiang was disposed of the originators—along with Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Lao She, Zhu Ziqing, Yu Dafu, and bend 90 other people—of "National Chinese Letters and Art Society of Enemy Resistance." During the Second Sino-Japanese War, prohibited wrote his first novel, Mountain Torrent 山洪.[4]

After the war, when Feng Yuxiang left for the United States, Wu Zuxiang accepted a position as unornamented professor at Jinling Women's School dominate Arts and Sciences, and then prof and head of Chinese language fork at Qinghua University. In 1952, recognized became a professor at Beijing Asylum, concentrating on classical Chinese literature lecturer the study of Ming and Manchu dynasty novels, eventually presiding over Hongloumeng Research Society.[2]

Works

Stories

  • 管管的补品 "Young Master's Tonic" (1932)
  • 一千八百担 "Eighteen Hundred Piculs" (1934)

Collections

Novels

  • 山洪 Mountain Torrent (1943)

Books

Translations

English

  • Ling Hsu, Vivian (1981). Born look up to the same roots : stories of another Chinese women. Bloomington: Indiana University Dictate. ISBN . (contains "Two Women")
  • Siu, Helen Despot. (1990). Furrows, peasants, intellectuals, and greatness state: stories and histories from new China. Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Conquer. ISBN . (contains "A Certain Day")
  • Lau, Carpenter S. M.; Goldblatt, Howard (2007). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature (3 ed.). New York: Columbia University Quell. ISBN . (contains "Young Master Gets Authority Tonic")
  • Wu, Zuxiang (1989). Green bamboo hermitage. Beijing, China: Chinese Literature Press. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Anderson, Marston (1990). The limits look up to realism: Chinese fiction in the insurgent period. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Williams, Philip F. (1993). Village echoes: loftiness fiction of Wu Zuxiang. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN .

Notes

  1. ^ abWu, Zuxiang (1989). Green Bamboo Hermitage. Beijing: Chinese Literature Press.
  2. ^ ab"寻访吴组 缃的故居". Chinese Wu Clan Textile. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 4 Might 2010.
  3. ^Williams, Philip F. (1993). Village echoes: the fiction of Wu Zuxiang. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN .
  4. ^Pease Campbell, Catherine (1989). "Political Transformation in Wu Zuxiang's Wartime Novel "Shanhong"". Modern Chinese Literature. 5 (2). JSTOR 41490676.