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Danton, George H.

(New York, N.Y. 1880-1962 Alameda, Calif.) : Professor of German, Qinghua College, Beijing

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Danton, George Henry

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Chronology Entries (2)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1916-1927 ca. George Henry Danton ist Professor of Germen der Qinghua-Universität in Beijing.
2 1919 Danton, G[eorge] H. Henrik Ibsen [ID D26352].
Danton schreibt : "In reading Ibsen chronologically, it is of great importance to understand what was the final and accomplished by him and through what stages he reached it. Eugene Scribe's plays are all outer action, all mere juxtaposition. Ibsen, at the very outset, went deeper than that ; not only ethically but dramatically. Ibsen stoutley denied that his play was a woman's rights play or that it should be used to aid women-suffrage ; he claimed for it only the portrayal of the rights of the individual to live as he or she will, and that the fundamental note was that the great crime is the crime against personaliy. Nora leaves home, husband, and above all, children, because she realizes that she has no chance to live her life with them and that her own ego had been sullied by her husband's selfishness."

Tam Kwok-kan : Originally presented as a speech to students at Tsing Hua University, the article differs from other similar writings in that it concentrates on the artistic aspect of Ibsen's drama. As a foreigner, Danton was detached from the social problems in China and, therefore, able to look at Ibsen from a different perspective.
  • Document: Tam, Kwok-kan. Ibsen in China : reception and influence. (Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois, Graduate College, 1984). Diss. Univ. of Illinois, 1984. S. 50-51. (Ibs115, Publication)
  • Person: Ibsen, Henrik

Bibliography (3)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1919 Danton, G[eorge] H. Henrik Ibsen. In : Tsing hua journal ; vol. 4, no 5 (April 1919). [Vortrag Qinghua-Universität 1919]. Publication / Ibs117
  • Cited by: Tam, Kwok-kan. Ibsen in China : reception and influence. (Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois, Graduate College, 1984). Diss. Univ. of Illinois, 1984. (Ibs115, Published)
  • Person: Ibsen, Henrik
2 1931 Danton, George Henry. The culture contacts of the United States and China. (New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, 1931). Publication / DanGH2
3 1938 Danton, George Henry. The Chinese people : new problems and old backgrounds. (Boston : Marshall Jones, 1938). Publication / DanGH1