Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fict...Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Call to Arms(1923)and Wandering(1926)represent the greatest achievement of Chinese story-writing at that time.His short stories are not only profound in thinking,but also worthy of admiration for their great value and innovation in art.Since the 1920’s,Lu Xun’s stories have been translated into various languages and published throughout the world,enjoying an international reputation.Only their English versions in the 20th century are discussed within this paper.These versions are different with various features,especially in dealing with Chinese traditional culture according to different purposes and towards different English readers.展开更多
Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fict...Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Call to Arms(1923)and Wandering(1926)represent the greatest achievement of Chinese story-writing at that time.Since the 1920’s,Lu Xun’s stories have been translated into various languages and published throughout the world,enjoying an international reputation.The three English versions chosen are different with various features,especially in dealing with Chinese traditional culture according to different purposes and towards different English readers.展开更多
Father of modern Chinese literature,Lu Xun,is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.In his short stories,he exposes the crimes of feudalism and describes the plight of the peasants,who have been econ...Father of modern Chinese literature,Lu Xun,is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.In his short stories,he exposes the crimes of feudalism and describes the plight of the peasants,who have been economically exploited and spiritually enslaved.He also depicts the fate of the intellectuals who struggle in the intense social contradictions.His fiction has laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Lu Xun has created almost all the new forms for Chinese new literature,and enjoys the most prominent status in the Chinese literary development in the 20th century.His writings reflect the great achievements of the literary reform since the May Fourth Movement.展开更多
The two English versions of Lu Xun's stories, translated by Julia Lovell and the Rangs, are to be studied from the ecotranslatological perspective. A comparative study of the two English versions is made to figure...The two English versions of Lu Xun's stories, translated by Julia Lovell and the Rangs, are to be studied from the ecotranslatological perspective. A comparative study of the two English versions is made to figure out how the two translators linguistically and culturally make adaptive selections in the process of translation of Lu Xun's stories—In other words, how the eco-environment has greatly influenced the two translators' decisions to make adaptations and choices in linguistic and cultural aspects.The thesis discovers that the eco-environment has greatly influenced the process of translating Lu Xun's stories into English and eco-translatology is feasible to analyze the two translations, that both the Yangs and Lovell have offered successful translations by making adaptive selections and selective transformations. Therefore, neither of the two translations is superior or inferior to one another in different translational eco- environments. Hopefully, the thesis may enrich current researches on the Yang's and Lovell's translations and may be useful for the further study of applying eco-translatology to studies on other translators and their works.展开更多
This paper examines the performance significance of Lu Xun's historical short stories collected in Gushi xinbian(Old stories retold,1936)by focusing on the mediality of his idiosyncratic writing,which he himself c...This paper examines the performance significance of Lu Xun's historical short stories collected in Gushi xinbian(Old stories retold,1936)by focusing on the mediality of his idiosyncratic writing,which he himself called"facetious."It revisits the young Lu Xun's uneasy en gageme nt with medical science as student documented in his lecture notebooks bearing corrections by his teacher as well as his early essays?This provides an analytical framework for discussing the stakes of his historical fiction as a critique of the discourse of scientific historiography which was increasingly gaining currency in May Fourth China.Lu Xun's historical fiction is conspicuously not meant to function as a stable medium between the past and the present but betrays its opaque and even arbitrary mediality,which disrupts identity in historical representation and thus critiqques ideological,"cultural"power inherent in scientific discourse that tries to establish that identity.The paper then reads Gushi xinbian as attempts at recovering history from such power and envisioning new possibilities of historical transmission in the midst of an aporetic search of a prehistory of Chinese modernity—attempts hinged on anachronistic textual moments whose meanings circulate in defiance of any identity of time with itself,thereby bespeaking an alternative power to"make"history.展开更多
After Lu Xun published“A Madman’s Diary”(Kucmgren riji)and“The True Story of Ah Q”(A Q zhengzhuan),through the active introduction by modern Korean mass media,Lu Xun enjoyed the highest popularity of all modern C...After Lu Xun published“A Madman’s Diary”(Kucmgren riji)and“The True Story of Ah Q”(A Q zhengzhuan),through the active introduction by modern Korean mass media,Lu Xun enjoyed the highest popularity of all modern Chinese literary author in Korea Peninsula.“A Madman’s Diary”translated by Ryu Sooin,was published in the magazine Donggwang(The oriental light)in 1927.Yang Baekhwa's translation of“The True Story of Ah Q”was serialized in The Chosun llbo(The Korea daily)in 1930.“Lu Xun and His Works”by Jeong Raedong,who conduct systematic criticism on Lu Xun's literature,was published in The Korea Daily in 1931.Lu Xun was thus differentiated from the so-called “Zhou Brothers”and claimed a place of his own as a representative Chinese writer.After that,Lu Xun’s various works were translated into Korean,and he was acknowledged as“a Chinese literary master”and“a world-class writer”in the Korean literary world.Lu Xun’s literature was hence widely acknowledged.Lee Kwangsoo even created another character called“Park Seondal”based on the motif of“Ah Q.”With the development of mass media,people were eager to see Lu Xun's personal image.In the 1930s,major Korean media,such as The Shin Dong-a(The new East Asia),The Dong-a llbo(The East Asia daily),The Chosun llbo(The Korea daily),The Maeil Sinbo(The daily report),Chokwang(The morning light)and Samcheonli(Three thousand miles),successively published Lu Xun’s portraits and photos,helping visualize Lu Xun’s image and making great contributions to shaping the public image of Lu Xun and his literature.Through these major media in Korea,Lu Xun’s works and his reputation became widely known,and his portrait images were also circulated.In February 1938,the Hwarang Garden Troupe staged the play The True Story of Ah Q.Considering the commercial nature of the theatre at that time,the public performance of The True Story of Ah Q indicates that Lu Xun and his works had achieved a solid foothold in the public mind.However,Korean people’s access to Lu Xun’s literature was blocked after March 1938,when Japanese imperialists imposed a blanket ideological clampdown.With the advent of liberation on August 15,1945,the modern Korean public strongly needed Lu Xun's life experience and literary spirit as enlightenment.Hence,translation and research of Lu Xun’s literary works became active again.In particular,in 1946,after the publication of The Collected Short Stories of Lu Xun(Volumes 1-2),jointly translated by Kim Kwangju and Lee Yongkyu,which included Lu Xun’s major works,Korean people were able to gain a more systematic access to Lu Xun’s literature.The inspirational value of Lu Xun’s literature was re-ignited after Korea's liberation and independence.Lu Xun was thus once again praised as“a literary giant”and“a great writer.”展开更多
文摘Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Call to Arms(1923)and Wandering(1926)represent the greatest achievement of Chinese story-writing at that time.His short stories are not only profound in thinking,but also worthy of admiration for their great value and innovation in art.Since the 1920’s,Lu Xun’s stories have been translated into various languages and published throughout the world,enjoying an international reputation.Only their English versions in the 20th century are discussed within this paper.These versions are different with various features,especially in dealing with Chinese traditional culture according to different purposes and towards different English readers.
文摘Lu Xun(1881-1936)has been acclaimed father of modern Chinese literature.He is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.His stories have laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Call to Arms(1923)and Wandering(1926)represent the greatest achievement of Chinese story-writing at that time.Since the 1920’s,Lu Xun’s stories have been translated into various languages and published throughout the world,enjoying an international reputation.The three English versions chosen are different with various features,especially in dealing with Chinese traditional culture according to different purposes and towards different English readers.
文摘Father of modern Chinese literature,Lu Xun,is the first writer to use the vernacular to write fiction.In his short stories,he exposes the crimes of feudalism and describes the plight of the peasants,who have been economically exploited and spiritually enslaved.He also depicts the fate of the intellectuals who struggle in the intense social contradictions.His fiction has laid a solid foundation for the development of modern Chinese fiction.Lu Xun has created almost all the new forms for Chinese new literature,and enjoys the most prominent status in the Chinese literary development in the 20th century.His writings reflect the great achievements of the literary reform since the May Fourth Movement.
文摘The two English versions of Lu Xun's stories, translated by Julia Lovell and the Rangs, are to be studied from the ecotranslatological perspective. A comparative study of the two English versions is made to figure out how the two translators linguistically and culturally make adaptive selections in the process of translation of Lu Xun's stories—In other words, how the eco-environment has greatly influenced the two translators' decisions to make adaptations and choices in linguistic and cultural aspects.The thesis discovers that the eco-environment has greatly influenced the process of translating Lu Xun's stories into English and eco-translatology is feasible to analyze the two translations, that both the Yangs and Lovell have offered successful translations by making adaptive selections and selective transformations. Therefore, neither of the two translations is superior or inferior to one another in different translational eco- environments. Hopefully, the thesis may enrich current researches on the Yang's and Lovell's translations and may be useful for the further study of applying eco-translatology to studies on other translators and their works.
文摘This paper examines the performance significance of Lu Xun's historical short stories collected in Gushi xinbian(Old stories retold,1936)by focusing on the mediality of his idiosyncratic writing,which he himself called"facetious."It revisits the young Lu Xun's uneasy en gageme nt with medical science as student documented in his lecture notebooks bearing corrections by his teacher as well as his early essays?This provides an analytical framework for discussing the stakes of his historical fiction as a critique of the discourse of scientific historiography which was increasingly gaining currency in May Fourth China.Lu Xun's historical fiction is conspicuously not meant to function as a stable medium between the past and the present but betrays its opaque and even arbitrary mediality,which disrupts identity in historical representation and thus critiqques ideological,"cultural"power inherent in scientific discourse that tries to establish that identity.The paper then reads Gushi xinbian as attempts at recovering history from such power and envisioning new possibilities of historical transmission in the midst of an aporetic search of a prehistory of Chinese modernity—attempts hinged on anachronistic textual moments whose meanings circulate in defiance of any identity of time with itself,thereby bespeaking an alternative power to"make"history.
基金the National Social Science Fund of China:Documentation and Research on the History of Modern and Contemporary Literature Exchange between China and South Korea(Project No.16ZDA189).
文摘After Lu Xun published“A Madman’s Diary”(Kucmgren riji)and“The True Story of Ah Q”(A Q zhengzhuan),through the active introduction by modern Korean mass media,Lu Xun enjoyed the highest popularity of all modern Chinese literary author in Korea Peninsula.“A Madman’s Diary”translated by Ryu Sooin,was published in the magazine Donggwang(The oriental light)in 1927.Yang Baekhwa's translation of“The True Story of Ah Q”was serialized in The Chosun llbo(The Korea daily)in 1930.“Lu Xun and His Works”by Jeong Raedong,who conduct systematic criticism on Lu Xun's literature,was published in The Korea Daily in 1931.Lu Xun was thus differentiated from the so-called “Zhou Brothers”and claimed a place of his own as a representative Chinese writer.After that,Lu Xun’s various works were translated into Korean,and he was acknowledged as“a Chinese literary master”and“a world-class writer”in the Korean literary world.Lu Xun’s literature was hence widely acknowledged.Lee Kwangsoo even created another character called“Park Seondal”based on the motif of“Ah Q.”With the development of mass media,people were eager to see Lu Xun's personal image.In the 1930s,major Korean media,such as The Shin Dong-a(The new East Asia),The Dong-a llbo(The East Asia daily),The Chosun llbo(The Korea daily),The Maeil Sinbo(The daily report),Chokwang(The morning light)and Samcheonli(Three thousand miles),successively published Lu Xun’s portraits and photos,helping visualize Lu Xun’s image and making great contributions to shaping the public image of Lu Xun and his literature.Through these major media in Korea,Lu Xun’s works and his reputation became widely known,and his portrait images were also circulated.In February 1938,the Hwarang Garden Troupe staged the play The True Story of Ah Q.Considering the commercial nature of the theatre at that time,the public performance of The True Story of Ah Q indicates that Lu Xun and his works had achieved a solid foothold in the public mind.However,Korean people’s access to Lu Xun’s literature was blocked after March 1938,when Japanese imperialists imposed a blanket ideological clampdown.With the advent of liberation on August 15,1945,the modern Korean public strongly needed Lu Xun's life experience and literary spirit as enlightenment.Hence,translation and research of Lu Xun’s literary works became active again.In particular,in 1946,after the publication of The Collected Short Stories of Lu Xun(Volumes 1-2),jointly translated by Kim Kwangju and Lee Yongkyu,which included Lu Xun’s major works,Korean people were able to gain a more systematic access to Lu Xun’s literature.The inspirational value of Lu Xun’s literature was re-ignited after Korea's liberation and independence.Lu Xun was thus once again praised as“a literary giant”and“a great writer.”
