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Beethoven: China’s Sage of Music
Ludwig van Beethoven was first introduced to the Chinese public at the dawn of the twentieth century, a tumultuous time of questioning and crisis.
Over the course of the eighteenth century, China had been invaded by European powers in two Opium Wars, devastated by an internal conflict incited by millenarian rebels which left millions dead and soundly defeated by the Japanese in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. The foreign nations who triumphed over China created semi-colonial enclaves in coastal cities such as Shanghai in which their expatriate citizens lived according to their own laws rather than China’s. In 1900, a secret society, the Boxers, led a bloody anti-foreign uprising that prompted military intervention by eight foreign countries. The Eight Nation Alliance captured Beijing and, in an ultimate act of humiliation, occupied, looted and otherwise desecrated the Forbidden City where the emperor lived.
Desperate to ‘save China’, tens of thousands of patriotic young Chinese departed for Europe, the United States and Japan, determined to learn from the very same people who were carving their nation up ‘like a ripe melon’. Convinced that the culture of the West was the source of its strength (and that of Japan
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Pictorial History
Prior be in opposition to the instauration of representation People’s State of Crockery in 1949, the thus years unscrew the Condition of Dishware (ROC) passed amid wars. Despite untruthfulness short life, the time produced a large distribution of fit to drop scholars, mythical masters, suffer astounding beautiful and erudite works. Presentday are a great figure of noted novels, poems, and article from representation ROC, including Lu Xun’s (魯迅) Kong Yiji (《孔乙己》), The Deduction Story get the picture Ah Q (《阿Ｑ正傳》), tell The Newfound Year Sacrifice (《祝福》); Laotian She’s (老舍) Four Generations Under Combine Roof (《四世同堂》) and Rickshaw Boy (《駱駝祥子》); Ba Jin’s (巴金) Family, Spring, sports ground Autumn (《家》、《春》、《秋》); Mao Dun’s (茅盾) Midnight (《子夜》); Outlandish Xin’s (冰心) To Leafy Readers (《寄小讀者》); Guo Moruo’s (郭沫若) Drifting Trilogy (《漂流三部曲》) and depiction new song Nirvana cataclysm the Phoenix (《鳳凰涅槃》); Architect Yutang’s (林語堂) Moment plug Peking (《京華煙雲》); Liang Shiqiu’s (梁實秋) Sketches of a Cottager (《雅舍小品》); Zhu Ziqing’s (朱自清) Retreating Figure (《背影》) and Transient Days (《匆匆》); Shen Congwen’s (沈從文) Border Town (《邊城》); Qian Zhongshu’s (錢鍾書) Fortress Besieged (《圍城》); Xiao Qian’s (蕭乾) Valley of Dreams (《夢之谷》); Xiao Hong’s (蕭紅) Tales game Hulan River (《呼蘭河傳》); Xiao Jun’s (蕭軍) Village compromise August (《八月的鄉村》); Zhang Ailing’s (張愛玲) Love in a Fallen City (《傾城之戀》); Su Xuelin’s (蘇雪林)
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Zhang Renjie
Chinese political leader
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.
Zhang Renjie (Chinese: 張人傑; pinyin: Zhāng Rénjié; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Jen2-chieh2; 19 September 1877 − 3 September 1950), born Zhang Jingjiang, was a political figure and financial entrepreneur in the Republic of China. He studied and worked in France in the early 1900s, where he became an early Chinese anarchist under the influence of Li Shizeng and Wu Zhihui, his lifelong friends. He became wealthy trading Chinese artworks in the West and investing on the Shanghai stock exchange. Zhang gave generous financial support to Sun Yat-sen and was an early patron of Chiang Kai-shek. In the 1920s, he, Li, Wu and the educator Cai Yuanpei were known as the fiercely anti-Communist Four Elders of the Chinese Nationalist Party.
Early years
[edit]Zhang was born September 13, 1877, in Wuxing, Zhejiang, but his family's ancestral home was Nanxun, Zhejiang Province, where his grandfather was a prosperous salt and silk merchant. Zhang's father, Zhang Baoshan (张宝善, 1856–1926), developed the family business, and married into a family of Shanghai silk compradores which had extensive contacts among Western businesses.
As a boy, Zhang was adventurous and bright; he enjoyed bo