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Li Jianwu
Li Jianwu (; 17 August 1906 - 24 November 1982) was a Chinese author, dramatist and translator who was the president of French Literature Research Council. Li was an officer of the Chinese State Council and a member of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He translated the works of the French novelists Gustave Flaubert and Stendhal into Chinese. Biography Li was born in 1906 in Yuncheng County, Shanxi, his father, Li Mingfeng (), was a warlord of Qing Empire. After the downfall of Yuan Shikai Administration, Li's family moved to Beijing, where he studied at Beijing Normal University's Elementary School. At the age of 13, his father was killed by Anhui clique General Chen Shufan. Li went on to attend the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University in 1921, at the same time, he started to publish works, and made the acquaintance of Wang Tongzhao (). In 1925, Li was put under house arrest for his opposition to Minister of Education M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li (surname 李)
Li or Lee (; ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million in Asia. It is the List of common Chinese surnames, second-most common surname in China as of 2018, the second-most common surname in Hong Kong, the most common surname in Macau and the 5th most common surname in Taiwan, where it is usually romanized as "Lee". The surname is pronounced as () in Cantonese, ''Lí'' (Pe̍h-ōe-jī, poj) in Taiwanese Hokkien, but is often spelled as "Lee" in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand and many overseas Chinese communities. In Macau, it is also spelled as "Lei". In Indonesia it is commonly spelled as "Lie". The common Korean name#Family names, Korean surname, "Lee (Korean surname), Lee" (also romanized as "I", "Yi", "Ri", or "Rhee"), and the Vietnamese name#Family name, Vietnamese surname, "Lý (Vietnamese name), Lý", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Shufan
Chen Shufan () (1885 – November 2, 1949) was a Chinese general active during the early Republican period in China. He was a prominent general of the Anhui Clique and won the Order of Rank and Merit and Order of Wen-Hu. Biography Born in Ankang County, Xingan Prefecture, Shaanxi, he went to the local military academy in 1905 before transferring to Baoding Military Academy in 1906. In 1910, after graduating from the military academy, he returned to Shaanxi and was commissioned an officer. He joined the Tongmenghui in 1911, and on October 22 of that year participated in the Xi'an uprising of the Xinhai Revolution. Despite Yuan Shikai's attempt to win him over through a rank of nobility, at the beginning of the National Protection War in December 1915 Chen joined the National Protection Movement in opposing Yuan and declared Shaanxi's independence from the Empire of China. Chen joined the Anhui clique after Yuan's death in June 1916. In 1917 he was opposed by Hu Jingyi, a forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armance (novel)
''Armance'' is a romance novel set during the Bourbon Restoration by French writer Stendhal, published anonymously in 1827. It was Stendhal's first novel, though he had published essays and critical works on literature, art, and travel since 1815. Plot Octave de Malivert, a taciturn but brilliant young man barely out of the École Polytechnique, is attracted to Armance Zohiloff, who shares his feelings. The novel describes how a series of misunderstandings have kept the lovers Armance and Octave divided. A series of clues suggest that Octave is impotent as a result of a severe accident. Octave is experiencing a deep inner turmoil; he himself illustrates the pain of the century's romantics. When the pair do eventually marry, the slanders of a rival convince Octave that Armance had married only out of selfishness. Octave leaves to fight in Greece, and dies there of sorrow. Theme ''Armance'' is based on the theme of '' Olivier'', a novel by the Duchess Claire de Duras. In ''Olivier'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionary Of Received Ideas
The ''Dictionary of Received Ideas'' (or ''Dictionary of Accepted Ideas''; in French, ''Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues'') is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911–13 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire. It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid. It is often paired with the ''Sottisier'' (a collection of stupid quotations taken from the books of famous writers). Purpose At the time of Flaubert's death, it was unclear whether he intended eventually to publish it separately, or as an appendix to his unfinished novel '' Bouvard et Pécuchet''. In some of his notes, it seems that Flaubert intended the dictionary to be taken as the final creation of the two protagonists. In other notes, it seems the ''Sottisier'' is intended as their final work. Flaubert's two main themes are the "castigation of the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentimental Education
''Sentimental Education'' (French: ''L'éducation sentimentale'') is an 1869 novel by Gustave Flaubert. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man named Frédéric Moreau at the time of the French Revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire. It describes Moreau's love for an older woman, a character based on the wife of the music publisher Maurice Schlesinger, who is portrayed in the book as Jacques Arnoux. The novel's tone is by turns ironic and pessimistic; it occasionally lampoons French society. The main character often gives himself over to romantic flights of fancy. Considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, it was praised by contemporaries such as George Sand and Émile Zola, but criticised by Henry James. Background Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences, including the romantic passion, on his own life. He wrote of the work in 1864: "I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation—or, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memoirs Of A Madman
''Memoirs of a Madman'' () is an autobiographical text written by Gustave Flaubert in 1838. The next year, Flaubert dedicated it to his friend, . The manuscript changed hands twice before being finally published in ''La Revue Blanche'' from December 1900 to February 1901, some twenty years after Flaubert's death. Plot summary ''Memoirs of a Madman'' alternates between the narrator's musings on the present and his memories of the past. In the sections that deal with the present, the narrator takes a bleak outlook on life, discussing writing, sanity, and death. More attention has been given to the memories of his past. In one section, he recalls a summer near the ocean when he is fifteen. There he meets and falls in love with a married woman named Maria (thought to be based on Elisa Schlésinger, who would later influence his ''Sentimental Education ''Sentimental Education'' (French: ''L'éducation sentimentale'') is an 1869 novel by Gustave Flaubert. The story focuses on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Academy Of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research institutes, 2 universities, 71,300 full-time employees, and 79 thousand graduate students. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republic of China (1912–49), Republican era and was formerly also known by that name until the 1980s. The academy functions as the national scientific think tank and academic governing body, providing advisory and appraisal services on issues stemming from the national economy, Social change, social development, and science and technology progress. It is headquartered in Beijing, with affiliate institutes throughout China. It has also created hundreds of commercial enterprises, Lenovo being one of the most famous. The academy also runs the University of Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peking University
Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. It is also a member in the C9 League. Established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 by a royal charter from the Guangxu Emperor, it is the second oldest university in China after Tianjin University (established in 1895). In May 1912, the government of the Republic of China ordered the Imperial University of Peking to be renamed Peking University. Then Peking University merged with Yenching University during the nationwide restructuring of universities and academic departments in 1952. In April 2000, the Beijing Medical University merged with the Peking University. Peking Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xia Yan (playwright)
Xia Yan (; 30 October 1900 – 6 February 1995) was a Chinese playwright and screenwriter, and the People's Republic of China's Deputy Minister of Culture between 1954 and 1965. Among the dozens of plays and screenplays penned by Xia Yan, the most renowned include ''Under the Eaves of Shanghai'' (1937) and ''The Fascist Bacillus'' (1944). Today the Xia Yan Film Literature Award is named in his honor. Personal life Xia entered Zhejiang Industrial School ( , a technical school of Zhejiang University) in 1915, five years before being sent to study in Japan. He was forced to return in 1927, two years after graduating with an engineering degree. Political career On Xia's return in 1927 expelled by Japanese authorities for his political activity he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and rose to become a cultural chief in the Shanghai municipality, and then Deputy Minister of Culture in 1954. In 1961, Xia wrote an essay called "Raise Our Country's Film Art to a New Level" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Ying
Qian Xingcun (, 6 February 1900 17 June 1977), also known by the pen name (), was a Chinese literary critic, author, and screenwriter. Born in Wuhu, Anhui, Qian moved to Shanghai in 1918 to attend the Shanghai Zhonghua Industrial College. Following the May Fourth Movement, he began writing extensively as a member of the leftist and League of Left-Wing Writers; he also joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1926. He penned several screenplays for the Mingxing Film Company in the 1930s as well as reviews of contemporary Chinese literature, which were followed during the Second Sino-Japanese War by anti-Japanese periodicals and stage plays. Having occupied prominent positions in the People's Republic of China since its establishment, he was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. Qian produced three collections of short stories, two poetry collections, a lengthy narrative poem, and four stage dramas, as well as several film scripts. In his literary criticism, he promote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Zhenduo
Zheng Zhenduo (December 19, 1898 – October 17, 1958) was a Chinese journalist, writer, archaeologist and scholar. He made a significant contribution towards the establishment of the Chinese literature and the editing of a variety of literary magazines. In 1921, he, Mao Dun, Jiang Baili, Geng Jizhi (耿濟之), and others organized the Literary Study Society ( zh, labels=no, c=文學研究會, p=Wenxue yanjiu hui). In 1923, he became the chief editor of '' Fiction Monthly''. In addition, he in succession participated in editing ''Min Chao'' (閩潮), ''Xin Shehui'' (新社會), ''Wenxue Xunkan'' (文學旬刊). In late 1931, he became a professor at both Yenching University and Tsinghua University, the president of Faculty of Arts and the director of Chinese department of Jinan University. He was also the chief editor of ''The World's Library'' ( zh, labels=no, c=世界文庫, p=Shijie Wenku) at the same time. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World WarII in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century and has been described as The Asian Holocaust, in reference to the scale of Japanese war crimes against Chinese civilians. It is known in China as the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. On 18 September 1931, the Japanese staged the Mukden incident, a false flag event fabricated to justify their Japanese invasion of Manchuria, invasion of Manchuria and establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo. This is sometimes marked as the beginning of the war. From 1931 to 1937, China and Japan engaged in skirmishes, including January 28 incident, in Shanghai and in Northern China. Chinese Nationalist and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
