Zheng Zhendo ( December 19, 1898 , Wenzhou , Zhejiang Province - October 17, 1958 , near Apnerka Station, Vurnarsky District , Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, RSFSR, USSR) - Chinese literary critic, writer, public figure. Director of the Institute of Literature and the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . The author of collections of poems, short stories and essays.
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Biography
He graduated from the Beijing Institute of Railway Transport . Editor of a number of magazines. Member of the movement "May 4th" ( 1919 ). In 1921 - one of the founders of the Society for the Study of Literature. Since 1931 he taught at Beijing and Shanghai universities. He advocated the study of Chinese literature in comparison with world literature. He studied literary genres that before him did not attract the attention of literary historians.
Translated into Chinese the “ Seagull ” by A.P. Chekhov, “ Poverty is not a vice ” by A.N. Ostrovsky, “Reineke-Lis” by I.V. Goethe, verses by R. Tagore and others.
He died in the USSR on the territory of Chuvashia in the Tu-104 air crash .
Author of works
- The Illustrated History of Chinese Literature (1932),
- "The History of Popular Chinese Literature" (1938),
- “The problem of the periodization of the history of Chinese literature” (1958).
- Zhongguo Wensue Yanju, Vols. 1-3, Beijing, 1957; Zheng Zhen-do Wenji, Vol. 1-2, Beijing, 1959-63.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118924567 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Zheng Zhen-do // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [30 p.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
Literature
- Eidlin L.Z. Zheng Zhen-do and the science of Chinese literature, in the collection: Movement "May 4" 1919 in China, M., 1971.