Shen Congwen

Shen Congwen (沉 从 文Chinese沉 从 文, born December 28, 1902 Fenghuang county of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province; † 10 May 1988 in Beijing) was a Chinese writer.

Life

As the son of a military family, he experienced the horrors of the Revolution of 1911 with first-hand, as this also reached his hometown. At 15, he is first a soldier himself. From this time in the areas adjacent to the province of Sichuan mountain areas his later works are decisively shaped and its origins come from according his protagonists mostly a simple environment or include the ethnic minority Miao on. His paternal grandmother belonged to the Nationality of Miao, his mother was a Tujia.

After leaving the military service exerts Shen Congwen initially on a trial basis from diverse professions, before he decides in 1922 to study in Beijing. Simultaneous becoming apparent with the publication of a first story in 1923 the beginning of his literary work period.

After a brief stint as editor of the literary supplement of the newspaper Dagong, follow bodies as their professor of Chinese language. Since his books do not meet the demands of the Communists to literature, he is, at founding of the People 's Republic of China in 1949, victim of a campaign, during which he is attacked as bourgeois writers and which opens in an attempt to take his own life. Since then he has worked at the Museum of Chinese History, but only published scientific papers.

At the Cultural Revolution, he was again the victim of a smear campaign and forced into this framework in 1969 at a great age to physical labor, but eventually rehabilitated again after its end.

From 1978, again scientists at the Institute of History of the Academy of Social Sciences, 1980 is one of his short stories as the basis for a screenplay. Two years later he became a member of the Association for Literary and Art Circles and again a year later he enters the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on.

Compared to other authors of this period is characteristic of his work, the strong influence of tradition and classical literature.

Works

  • Ducks, 1926 - stories
  • Oranges, 1927 - stories
  • Alice's Adventures in China ( "阿丽思 中国 游记" ), Volume I, 1928 - in allusion to Lewis Carroll
  • Shadow in the lamplight, 1928 - Chinese processing of the Decameron
  • Xiao- Xiao, 1929 - story
  • Alice's Adventures in China, Volume II, 1931
  • The Marble Boat ( "石子 船" ), 1931 - anthology of short stories
  • Memories of Ding Ling ( "记 丁玲" ), 1934 - Biographical Essay
  • The border town ( "边城" ), 1934 - amendment
  • Memories of Ding Ling, Volume II, 1940
  • Shen Congwens autobiography, 1943
  • Under cover of night, 1947 - stories
  • Sunny day after the snowfall, 1947 - Roman
  • Long River ( "长河" ), 1948 - Roman Fragment
  • Dragon and phoenix in the arts, 1960
  • Lacquer ware from the period of the Warring States, 1962
  • Clothing and ornamentation in ancient China, 1981
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