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Fin-de-Siècle Splendor
''Fin-de-Siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1848-1911'' is a 1997 non-fiction book by David Der-Wei Wang, published by Stanford University Press. David Wang's thesis is that modernity was already beginning to appear in fiction published in the late Qing Dynasty of China, defined by Wang as beginning in 1849, around the start of the Taiping rebellion, rather than only appearing after the Qing Dynasty concluded in 1912. This is the first English-language full-length book written by a single author that surveyed late Qing Dynasty fiction.Williams, p. 371. Robert Hegel of Washington University in St. Louis stated that the book focuses on fiction "generally despised as backward, decadent, and certainly not modern" and that while it does not attempt to subvert the understanding of May Fourth Movement-era works itself, Wang argues that there were multiple new literary forms pursued in the post-Taiping era, not just intentionally Westernized writing.Hegel, p. 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Der-Wei Wang
David Der-wei Wang (; born November 6, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American literary historian, critic, and the Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He has written extensively on post-late Qing Chinese fiction, comparative literary theory, colonial and modern Taiwanese literature, diasporic literature, Chinese Malay literature, Sinophone literature, and Chinese intellectuals and artists in the 20th century. His notions such as "repressed modernities", "post-loyalism", and "modern lyrical tradition" are instrumental and widely discussed in the field of Chinese literary studies. Life and career David Der-wei Wang was born in Taipei. He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School and took his B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Taiwan University and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Wang taught at National Taiwan University (1982–1986), Harvard University (1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Flower In A Sinful Sea
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed Over Two Decades
''Bizarre Happenings Eyewitnessed over Two Decades'' (T: 二十年目睹之怪現狀, S: 二十年目睹之怪现状, P: ''Èrshí Nián Mùdǔzhī Guài Xiànzhuàng'', W: ''Erh-shih nien mu-tu-chih kuai hsien-chuang'', also translated as: "Strange Events Witnessed in the Past Twenty Years", "The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years", "Reports on Strange Things for the Past Twenty Years", and "Wu Jianren's Strange Events Eyewitnessed over the Last Two Decades") is a novel by Wu Jianren (also known as Wu Wo-yao). The novel was serialized in ''Xin Xiaoshuo'' (T: 新小說, S: 新小说, P: ''Xīn Xiǎoshuō''; W: ''Hsin Hsiao-shuo''; "New Fiction"), a magazine by Liang Qichao Liang Qichao (Chinese: 梁啓超; Wade–Giles: ''Liang2 Chʻi3-chʻao1''; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Lèuhng Kái-chīu''; ) (February 23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese politician, social and political activist, jour .... In 1909 the novel was completed and publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Shih
Hu Shih ( zh, t=胡適; 17 December 189124 February 1962) was a Chinese academic, writer, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform, and was a leading advocate for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He participated in the May Fourth Movement and China's New Culture Movement. He was a president of Peking University and Academia Sinica. Hu was the editor of the '' Free China Journal'', which was shut down for criticizing Chiang Kai-shek. In 1919, he also criticized Li Dazhao. Hu advocated that the world adopt Western-style democracy. Moreover, Hu criticized Sun Yat-sen's claim that people are incapable of self-rule. Hu criticized the Nationalist government for betraying the ideal of Constitutionalism in ''The Outline of National Reconstruction''. Hu wrote many essays questioning the political legitimacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party. Specifically, Hu said that the autocratic dictatorship system of the CCP was "un-Chinese" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Travels Of Lao Can
''The Travels of Lao Can'' () is a novel by Liu E (1857–1909), written between 1903 and 1904 and published in 1907 to wide acclaim. Thinly disguising his own views in those of Lao Can, the physician hero, Liu describes the rise of the Boxers in the countryside, the decay of the Yellow River control system, and the hypocritical incompetence of the bureaucracy. Its social satire showed the limits of the old elite and officialdom and gave an in-depth look into everyday life in the countryside in the late Qing period. Publication history The first 13 chapters were serialized in the bi-weekly '' Xiuxiang Xiaoshuo'' (; Illustrated Fiction) from March 1903 to January 1904, in issues 9 through 18. It was published in the '' Tianjin Riri Xinwen Bao'' ( United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commercep. 188) in a 20 chapter version with a prologue.Doleželová-Velingerová, p724 Plot In the prologue Lao Can (T: 老殘, S: 老残; literally, "Old Decrepit"), a traveling medical pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Boyuan
Li Baojia (), courtesy name (zi) Li Boyuan (; 1867-1906PL, p547), art name nickname (hao) Nanting tingzhang () was a Qing Dynasty-era Chinese author. He was a writer, essayist, ballad author, poet, calligrapher, and seal carver. He edited a fiction periodical and several tabloids. History Li Baojia was born in Shandong. His ancestral hometown was Wujin District, Wujin in what is now Changzhou, Jiangsu. Li Baojia lived in Shandong for his early childhood and young adulthood, spanning the years 1867 to 1892. After 1892 he moved to Wujin into the residence of his parents. For a five-year period he studied for the ''xiucai'' imperial examination and passed it. He then studied for the ''juren'' exam but did not pass. He moved from Wujin to Shanghai at age 30 and worked as a writer and journalist.PL, p548 Initially Li served as the principal writer and editor of several area tabloids and magazines. They included the ''Shanghai Shijie Fanhua Bao'', the ''Zhinan Bao'' (), and ' (). By 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huo Diyu
Huo () is a Chinese surname. It is pronounced as Fok in Cantonese. During the Zhou dynasty, King Wu awarded land to his brother Shuchu (叔處) in "Huo" (modern Huozhou, Shanxi), and Shuchu's descendants adopted "Huo" as their family name. Notable people * Huo Qubing (霍去病; 140–117 BC), Western Han dynasty general * Huo Guang (霍光; d. 68 BC), Huo Qubing's half-brother, Western Han dynasty statesman * Huo Chengjun (霍成君; d. 54 BC), Huo Guang's daughter, Western Han dynasty empress * Huo Jun (霍峻; 177–216), Eastern Han dynasty general * Huo Yi (霍弋), Huo Jun's son, Shu general of the Three Kingdoms period * Huo Ji (霍冀; 1516–1575), Ming dynasty official * Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲; 1868–1910), Qing dynasty martial artist * Henry Fok Ying-tung (霍英東; Huo Yingdong; 1923–2006), Hong Kong businessman * Timothy Fok Tsun-ting (霍震霆; Huo Zhenting; b. 1946), Henry Fok's eldest son, Hong Kong politician and entrepreneur * Ian Fok Tsun-wan (霍震 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Miaoru
Wang may refer to: Names * Wang (surname) (王), a common Chinese surname * Wāng (汪), a less common Chinese surname * Titles in Chinese nobility * A title in Korean nobility * A title in Mongolian nobility Places * Wang River in Thailand * Wang Township, Minnesota, a township in the United States * Wang, Bavaria, a town in the district of Freising, Bavaria, Germany * Wang, Austria, a town in the district of Scheibbs in Lower Austria * An abbreviation for the town of Wangaratta, Australia * Wang Theatre, in Boston, Massachusetts * Charles B. Wang Center, an Asian American center at Stony Brook University Broadcasting * WWNG, a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to serve Havelock, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WANG from 1999 to 2017 * WBKZ, a radio station licensed to Havelock, North Carolina formerly known as WANG-FM * WANG, a radio station using the call sign since 2018 Other * Wang (Tibetan Buddhism), a form of empowerment or initiation * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Heroes And Five Gallants
''The Tale of Loyal Heroes and Righteous Gallants'' (忠烈俠義傳), also known by its 1883 reprint title ''The Three Heroes and Five Gallants'' (三俠五義), is an 1879 Chinese novel based on storyteller Shi Yukun's oral performances. The novel was later revised by philologist Yu Yue and republished in 1889 under the title ''The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants'' (七俠五義), with the story essentially unaltered. Set in 11th-century Song dynasty, the story detailed the rise of legendary judge Bao Zheng to high office, and how a group of ''youxia'' (knights-errant)—each with exceptional martial arts, martial talent and selfless heroism—helped him fight crimes, oppression, corruption and rebellion. It was one of the first novels to merge the gong'an fiction, ''gong'an'' (court-case fiction) and the ''wuxia'' (chivalric fiction) genres. Praised for its humorous narration and vivid characterizations, the novel has enjoyed huge readership: it spawned two dozen sequels by 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan
''Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan'' (), sometimes translated into English as ''A Tale of Lovers and Heroes'' and ''A Tale of Heroic Lovers'', is a Chinese novel in 40 chapters first printed in 1878 during the late Qing dynasty. It is written by Yanbei Xianren (燕北闲人), the pen name of Wen Kang (文康 fl. 1821-1850), a Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ... of an Eight Banner family. The novel is composed of vignettes that concern He Yufeng (何玉凤), also called "Thirteenth Sister" (十三妹). He Yufeng seeks revenge for her father, who died in prison because of persecution by a high official. She rescues a virtuous young woman, Ms. Zhang, and a heroic young scholar, An Ji (安骥) from cannibals. When An Ji becomes a high official, he marries both Hu and Zhang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Shengtan
Jin Shengtan (; 1610?7 August 1661), former name Jin Renrui (), also known as Jin Kui (), was a Chinese editor, writer and critic, who has been called the champion of Vernacular Chinese literature. Biography The year of Jin's birth is unclear, with some sources reporting 1610 and others 1608. The former estimate is based on the fact that Jin's son was 10 years old in East Asian age reckoning in 1641, and is generally accepted by scholars. He was born Jin Renrui in the town of Suzhou, a place celebrated for its culture and elegance. Jin's family was of the scholar-gentry class, but was constantly plagued by sickness and death, which led in turn to little wealth. Jin's father was apparently a scholar. Jin began schooling relatively late, attending a village school at the age of nine. He displayed great intellectual curiosity, and had somewhat unusual ideas. However, he was a conscientious student. Early in life, he took the style name "Shengtan", a phrase from the ''Analects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sai Jinhua
Sai Jinhua (; circa 1872-1936Hu, Ying, p53) was a Chinese prostitute who became the acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee.Zhang, Wenxian, p423 Her real family name was Cao or Zhao. During her career, she used the names Fu Caiyun (), Sai Jinhua, and Cao Menglan (). Her art name (''hao'') was Weizhao Lingfei (). Some people referred to her as Sai Erye (). In an encyclopedia article, Wenxian Zhang wrote Sai Jinhua "was regarded by some as a cross-cultural courtesan". In another, Wan Xianchu wrote: "Regardless of whether Sai Jinhua's role in China's foreign relations may have been exaggerated and despite the controversies surrounding her conduct and affairs, she lived a tough and spectacular life that has assured her a place in the modern history of China."Wan, p184 Early life Sai Jinhua was allegedly born with the name Zhao Lingfei () on October 9, 1872.Cheng, Joyce.Who is Sai Jinhua?Archive '' gbtimes''. Wednesday September 11, 2013. Retrieved on November 26, 2013. Sai Jinhua was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
