Zhou zuoren biography templates
Pub Date: July 2006
ISBN: 9789629961985
400 Pages
Format: Paperback
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Zhou Zuoren (1885–1967), the brother of writer Lu Xun, was one of the most controversial intellectuals in modern China. Radically at odds with many of his contemporaries, Zhou opposed the May Fourth reformers. His work was banned in both mainland China and Taiwan for many years as a result of his collaboration with the Japanese puppet government during the Sino-Japanese War.
This collection of essays presents an alternative vision of China as a nation, questioning the dichotomy between modernity and tradition and espousing a literary style that values openness and individualism.
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David E. Pollard, one of the foremost translators and interpreters of modern Chinese literature in the West, is an honorary senior research fellow at the Research Centre for Translation of the Institute of Chinese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.- Bib ID:
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- [Xianggang : Tao zhai shu wu, 197-?]
- [香港 : 陶齋書屋, 197-?]
- v. ; 22 x 33 cm.
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- A collection of articles on Chou Tso-jen reproduced from various sourse.
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By Zhou Zuoren
Ed. and trs. by David E. Pollard
Reviewed by Georges Bê Duc
MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright May 2007)
Zhou Zuoren.
Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren. Ed., tr. by David E. Pollard.
Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006. 298 pp. ISBN: 962-996-198-9 (paper)
The publication of this selection of Zhou Zuoren’s literary prose will certainly contribute to correcting our fiction-centered view of modern Chinese literature. As a result of long-standing cultural habit, nonfiction prose tends to be relegated to the margins in western literatures.[1] Yet the essay (sanwen)–whether critical (zawen) or not (xiaopinwen)[2]–is central to Chinese literature. Western cultural influence, although it upset the traditional genre system, did not displace the essay from its central position. If Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), who is considered one of the fathers of modern literary prose in China, remains largely unknown in the West, it is largely a consequence of this difference in perspectives.[3] To introduce works by an as yet unknown practitioner of a marginal genre to the Anglophone public, therefore, is in and of itself a challenge. Given the central importance of Zhou Zuoren’s oeuvre, the appearance of this book is most welcome.
A notable Zhou Zuoren expert, David E. Pollard–the introducer, translator, and editor of the texts in this volume–is doubtless the right man for the task. Among his studies of Zhou Zuoren and his works, A Chinese Look at Literature is a pioneering inquiry.[4] In addition, Pollard’s interest in Chinese literary prose (classical and modern) came to fruition with The Chinese Essay,[5] a sweeping anthology exploring nonfiction prose from the Three Kingdoms era to modern times. Zhou Zuoren: Selected Essays represents in this sense a logical outcome of Pollard’s earlier work.
Yet the question remains: how should one approach such a fecund and problematic oeuvre, Chinese writer In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhou. Zhou Zuoren Zhou Kuishou (周櫆壽) Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Qing Empire Beijing, People's Republic of China Zhou Zuoren (Chinese: 周作人; pinyin: Zhōu Zuòrén; Wade–Giles: Chou Tso-jen) (16 January 1885 – 6 May 1967) was a Chinese writer, primarily known as an essayist and a translator. He was the younger brother of Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren, 周树人), the second of three brothers. Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Zhou Zuoren was educated at the Jiangnan Naval Academy as a teenager before moving to Japan in 1906, following his brother's footsteps. During his stint in Japan, he began studying Ancient Greek, with the aim of translating the Gospels into Classical Chinese, and attended lectures on Chinese philology by scholar-revolutionary Zhang Binglin at Rikkyo University, although he was supposed to study civil engineering there. He returned to China in 1911, with his Japanese wife, and began to teach in different institutions. Writing essays in vernacular Chinese for the magazine La Jeunesse, Zhou was a figure in the May Fourth Movement as well as the New Culture Movement. He was an advocate of literary reform. In 1918, Zhou Zuoren, then a literature professor at Peking University, published an article titled "Human Literature", insisting on mutual understanding and sympathy between each other, and required a "recognition of the existence of the same kind". In the article, he attacked specifically such thematics in literature as childre
Zhou Zuoren
Born
(1885-01-16)16 January 1885Died 6 May 1967(1967-05-06) (aged 82) Occupation(s) Translator, Essayist Partner Zhou Xinzi (original name: Nobuko Habuto) Children Zhou Fengyi
Zhou Jingzi
Zhou RuoziParents Relatives Zhou Shuren (elder brother)
Zhou Jianren (younger brother)Biography
Early life
During the May Fourth Movement