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Chronology Entries (13)

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1	1917-2000	Jane Austen in China : general Zhang Helong : Jane Austen was first mentioned in China 1917 by Wei Yi. In 1911 Austen's novels only concentrated on so called 'daily triviality', which was of no interest to the Chinese intellectuals. Translators and scholars paid no attention to her and failed to recognize the particular significance of her work. In the 1930s Jane Austen's name began to appear as an important novelist in some academic books. In the 1980s, almost everyone in China began to view Austen as a major classic novelist. In the 1990s about one hundred essays were devoted to the study of Austen. She now usually occupies and exclusive chapter in almost every English literary history published in China. Zhu Hong : Austen was never mentioned in the past in China without being regarded as one who described a narrow life and trivial affairs but turned a blind eye to the English War against Napoleon. It's no wonder that she's been dwarfed by many first-class writers in Western countries. For a long time in our country, Austen has remained in the background under a severe look of disapproval, and failed to land a position among those Western classic works that have been pinned down for translation and publication in China. When the Gang of four came into power during the Cultural Revolution, her name was simply deleted from the history of English literature.	Document: Zhu, Hong. Dui Aosiding de Ao man yu pian jian. In : Du shu ; no 1 (1982). [The Pride and prejudice against Jane Austen]. 对奥斯丁的傲慢与偏见 (Aus80, Publication) Person: Austen, Jane
2	1917	Wei, Yi. Tai xi ming xiao shuo jia lüe zhuan [ID D30611]. First mention of Jane Austen in China. Jane Austen was hailed as "one of the celebrated English novelists ". Sense and sensibility topped the list of her "four major novels".	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Wei, Yi
3	1927	Ou, Yanglan. Yingguo wen xue shi [ID D30612]. Introduction "Of all her six novels, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma are most celebrated. They are all great works that describe social life, or recount countryside events. Her novels are less quickly developed than Scott's, but more delicate in characterization. As Scott says, the events, or incidents, even of the simplest kind, are elegantly written, and highly appealing to the reader."	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Ou, Yanglan
4	1933	Xu, Mingji. Yingjili wen xue [ID D30613]. Xu's brief account represents a general understanding of Jane Austen under many aspects : subject matter, style, characterization, satire, innovation, artistic achievements etc.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Xu, Mingji
5	1935	[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Yang Gang yi. [ID D13673]. Yang Gang recognized the humor and irony in Pride and prejudice, and defined it as a novel of 'family-focused irony'.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Yang, Gang
6	1935	[Austen, Jane]. Jiao ao yu pian jian. Dong Zhongchi yi. [ID D30607]. Preface by Liang Shiqiu. He began to discuss the subject matter of Austen's novels, explaining that Austen tried to seek meaning in ordinariness.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Liang, Shiqiu
7	1935	Chen, Quan. Jia Aosiding zuo pin zhong di xiao ju yuan su [ID D30614]. Chen sought to show that comic works depend on human reason rather than sensibility, and that, as a great comic writer, Jane Austen reached the essence of comedy.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Chen, Quan
8	1965	Dong, Hengxun. Ao man yu pian jian zhong di ai qing miao xie [ID D30615]. Dong thought that the significance of 'a love novel' lay in the degree to which 'social contradictions', or great social problems, are reflected through the descriptions of love and marriage ; as the issue of love and marriage in Pride and prejudice has overwhelmingly dwarfed the expose of 'social contradictions' in a bourgeois country, the novel is politically problematic and thus artistically insignificant. "Austen's fictional world is particularly small. When we read her works, we have no way to feel the pulse of her times."	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Dong, Hengxun
9	1982	Chen, Jia. A history of English literature = Yingguo wen xue shi [ID D23629]. "Jane Austen's fiction is flawed because she has entirely ignored the stirring scenes of growing contradictions and conflicts between the laboring people and the ruling classes in England and failed to make any representation of the social and political conflicts of the time."	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Chen, Jia
10	1986	[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian [ID D26674]. Zhu Hong pointed out in the preface that, in spite of the trivial family events depicted, "the small world in the novel reflects big problems. The tiny occurrences of three or four families in the countryside reveal the class situation and economic relations of English society". In Zhu's eyes, love and marriage in the novel indicate the prevailing inclination to be possessive in a capitalist society in which economic relations plays a decisive role and marriage relations amount to nothing more than a kind of financial deal.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Zhu, Hong (2)
11	1992	Zhang, Jieming. Ao man yu pian jian de xi ju xing xu shu [ID D30617]. Zhang discusses the narrative features in Pride and prejudice, interpreting its dramatic qualities in terms of objectivity, spatial and temporal concentration and inner logic. "For the past years, critics have only paid attention to Austen's humor and irony, her economy and reason, but have failed to recognize her efforts to conceive her fiction as an artistic whole."	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Zhang, Jieming
12	1996	Qiu, Yin. Aosiding yu Yingguo nü xing wen xue [ID D30616]. Qiu Yin holds that Austen is an important feminist predecessor to modern women writers, one who promotes women's liberation in her works ; but what is paradoxical is that her works inevitably mix both rebellion against and conformity with patriarchal society.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Qiu, Yin
13	2002	Su, Gengxin. Yi shi xing tai de you huo ping Lichaxun yu Aosiding xiao shuo zhong di nü xing ren wu miao [ID D30618]. Jane Austen is hardly a feminist novelist because her works in fact represent a kind of reactionary response to the burgeoning feminist movement by tempting her readers to accept patriarchal ideology or conform to the established political and social order through the mechanism of "virtue rewarded" on the part of her major characters.	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Su, Gengxin

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#	Year	Bibliographical Data	Type / Abbreviation	Linked Data
1	1935	Chen, Quan. Jia Aosiding zuo pin zhong di xiao ju yuan su. In : Qinghua da xue xue bao ; vol. 2 (1935). [The comic element in Jane Austen's novels]. 迦因•奥士丁作品中的笑剧元素	Publication / Aus84	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Chen, Quan
2	1965	Dong, Hengxun. Ao man yu pian jian zhong di ai qing miao xie. In : Guang ming ri bao ; 12 Sept. 1965. [The description of love in Pride and prejudice]. 傲慢与偏见 中的爱情描写	Publication / Aus85	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Dong, Hengxun
3	1982	Zhu, Hong. Dui Aosiding de Ao man yu pian jian. In : Du shu ; no 1 (1982). [The Pride and prejudice against Jane Austen]. 对奥斯丁的傲慢与偏见	Publication / Aus80	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Zhu, Hong (2)
4	1992	Zhang, Jieming. Ao man yu pian jian de xi ju xing xu shu. In : Wai guo wen xue ping lun ; no 2 (1992). [The dramatic narratives in Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen]. 傲慢与偏见的戏剧性叙述	Publication / Aus87	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Zhang, Jieming
5	1996	Qiu, Yin. Aosiding yu Yingguo nü xing wen xue. In : Shanghai da xue xue bao ; vol. 6 (1996). [Jane Austen and English women's literature]. 奥斯丁与英国女性文学	Publication / Aus86	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Qiu, Yin
6	2002	Su, Gengxin. Yi shi xing tai de you huo ping Lichaxun yu Aosiding xiao shuo zhong di nü xing ren wu miao. In : Guo wai wen xue ; no 4 (2002). [The ideological temptation : the female characters in the novels of Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen]. 意识形态的诱惑评里查逊与奥斯丁小说中的女性人物描写	Publication / Aus88	Person: Austen, Jane Person: Richardson, Samuel Person: Su, Gengxin