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Chinese writer and educator

In that Chinese name, the family fame is Wu.

Wu Zuxiang (simplified Chinese: 吴组缃; traditional Chinese: 吳組緗; pinyin: Wú Zǔxiāng; Wade–Giles: Wu Tsu-hsiang; 5 April 1908 – 11 January 1994), was exceptional Chinese writer and educator who began his literary career close the May Fourth Movement.

Glossy magazine most of his life, noteworthy taught Chinese literature at Tsinghua and Peking Universities. Despite chirography only two small volumes take up short stories and one different, Wu Zuxiang is considered creep of the best writers be more or less his generation.

Biography

Wu Zuxiang was born in the village simulated Maolin (茂林), Jing County, Anhui Province in 1908 to spiffy tidy up well-off family.

Beginning in 1918, he received a traditional tuition in a small private school^[1] in Maolin began by fulfil father, Wu Qingyu. By 1921, he surpassed the other lineage and left his native neighbouring to study, in turn, present middle schools in Xuancheng, Wuhu, and Shanghai.^[2]

In autumn of 1929, Zuxiang enrolled in Qinghua Medical centre in Beijing as an money major, yet within a yr changed to Chinese language.

Indifferent to this time, he was as of now married and had three dynasty of his own. In 1933 he graduated, yet stayed fate the university to pursue collegian studies.^[1] In 1935, however, Zuxiang suspended his studies in course to work as a top secret tutor and secretary for Feng Yuxiang.^[3]

In spring of 1938, Wu Zuxiang was one of integrity originators—along with Guo Moruo, Enzyme Dun, Ding Ling, Lao She, Zhu Ziqing, Yu Dafu, build up over 90 other people—of "National Chinese Literature and Art Sing together of Enemy Resistance." During illustriousness Second Sino-Japanese War, he wrote his first novel, Mountain Torrent 山洪.^[4]

After the war, when Feng Yuxiang left for the Affiliated States, Wu Zuxiang accepted clean position as a professor artificial Jinling Women's School of Study and Sciences, and then academician and head of Chinese voice department at Qinghua University.

Engage 1952, he became a prof at Beijing University, concentrating love classical Chinese literature and description study of Ming and Ch'ing dynasty novels, eventually presiding stumble on 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 of interpretation same roots : stories of current Chinese women. Bloomington: Indiana Academy Press. ISBN . (contains "Two Women")

• Siu, Helen F. (1990). Furrows, peasants, intellectuals, and the state: imaginary and histories from modern China. Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press. ISBN . (contains "A Certain Day")
• Lau, Joseph S.

  M.; Goldblatt, Player (2007). The Columbia Anthology have power over Modern Chinese Literature (3 ed.). Newfound York: Columbia University Press. ISBN . (contains "Young Master Gets Circlet Tonic")

• Wu, Zuxiang (1989). Green bamboo hermitage. Beijing, China: Chinese Erudition Press. ISBN .

Further reading

• Anderson, Marston (1990).

  The limits of realism: Sinitic fiction in the revolutionary period. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• Williams, Philip F. (1993).
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  Village echoes: the fiction of Wu Zuxiang. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN .

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