A Study on the “Nostalgia” in Zhou Zuoren and His Proses— Focusing on the Zhedong Culture

In the period of 1920s and 1930s, traditional Chinese ideas and aesthetics, although embattled and in the process of being superseded by modern and Western aesthetics, did not totally disappear or die out in Chinese film and literature. For example, the image of nature continued to be constructed for its ability to relieve the misery of humanity. This is demonstrated in the films A Poet at the Edge of the Sea (1927) and Sand Washed by Waves (1936). However, because of social turmoil and turbulence of this period, the peaceful inner spirit as conveyed in the traditional culture seemed unattainable. There were more hints of social struggles in the “utopia”, as shown in the films Little Toy (1933) and Return to Nature (1936). The traditional ideas and aesthetics were also continued by some writers, such as Zhou Zuoren, Feng Wenbing, Yu Pingbo and Wang Tongzhao, who still had close spiritual connections with traditional culture. Sometimes the spirit of the “return to nature” was embedded with another mark of this period: the influence of Western culture, as shown by several of Guo Moruo’s poems.

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Zhou Zuoren' Translation of Japanese and Ancient Greek Poetry and Forming of the Literary Thought of Chinese Vernacular Prose

Proceedings of the 2017 5th International Education, Economics, Social Science, Arts, Sports and Management Engineering Conference (IEESASM 2017) ◽

10.2991/ieesasm-17.2018.53 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Li Sun

Keyword(s):

Ancient Greek ◽

Greek Poetry ◽

Literary Thought ◽

Zhou Zuoren

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Zhou Zuoren and an Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity

10.2307/j.ctt1tfj8w7 ◽

2000 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Susan Daruvala

Keyword(s):

Zhou Zuoren

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The “Ellis Effect”

Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 ◽

10.1525/california/9780520293373.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Sex Education ◽

Republican China ◽

Sexual Science ◽

Zhou Zuoren

This chapter examines the tension between claims to universal translatability and practices of unruly or subversive appropriations by focusing on the changing character of a series of translations of Havelock Ellis's work into Chinese during the period 1911–1949. Traces of Ellis's ideas reappeared in the context of rising interest in Republican China in issues of gender differences, sex, and (homo)sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. Ellis's Chinese translators such as Zhou Zuoren, Zhang Jingsheng, and Pan Guangdan adapted his ideas to validate their own perspectives regarding social and sexual reform. The chapter discusses the heterogeneous approaches to and multiform adaptations of Ellis's sexology in Republican China to show how the “Ellis effect” revealed the sociocultural significance of popularizing sexual science and modern sex education.

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