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Wang, Fuquan

(um 1922)

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Chronology Entries (2)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1922 [Wilde, Oscar]. Yu zhong ji. Zhang Wentian, Wang Fuquan yi. [ID D12194].
Zhou Xiaoyi : Lu Xun, after reading the Chinese translation of Gide's biography of Wilde, noted that "his way of life is most interesting". He also noted Wilde's style of dress. In a paragraph discussing Wilde's appearance, he states : "look at his pictures, in which Wilde wears a flower in his button hole, taking a cane inlaid with ivory ; how handsome he is, everybody would love him, not to speak of women". Lu Xun used the phrase 'aesthetic costume' to describe Wilde's dress. Lu Xun is critical of Wilde's way of life, because, as a writer with a social mission and ideals, he is hostile to aestheticism and art for art's sake as universal principles for literature. He emphasizes the essentially social function of art. Yet no matter how critical he was, he had a clear image of Wilde as an aesthetic figure.
  • Document: Dougall, Bonny S. Fictional authors, imagery audiences : "The importance of being earnest" in China. = McDougall, Bonnie S. The importance of being earnest in China : early Chinese attitudes towards Oscar Wilde. In : Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, vol. 9 (1972/73). (WilO7, Publication)
  • Document: Zhou, Xiaoyi. Oscar Wilde : an image of artistic self-fashioning in modern China, 1909-1949. In : Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature : proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association‚ Literature as cultural memory, Leiden 1997. Ed. by Hua Meng, Sukehiro Hirakawa. (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2000). (WilO4, Publication)
  • Person: Lu, Xun
  • Person: Wilde, Oscar
  • Person: Zhang, Wentian
2 1922 Zhang, Wentian ; Wang Fuquan. Wangerde jie shao [ID D12195]. [Introducing Oscar Wilde].
Zhou Xiaoyi : Zhang Wentian, an early important critic in Wilde studies, made a similar observation as Lu Xun on Wilde's aesthetic mode of being. He noted that Wilde "devoted his whole life to art, to the religion of beauty". He argues that Wilde did not merely advance an artistic principle, but also put his principle to practice. He practiced his aestheticism in everyday life soon after he graduated from Oxford : "He wears a velvet coat, a loose shirt with a turn-down collar, and a tie of some unusual shade tied in a lavalliere knot. He propagated his aestheticism everywhere, with a sunflower or a lily in hand. How enthusiastic he is ! How full-hearted, how brave !" Here Zhang also related Wilde's aesthetic principle to his eccentric lifestyle, and offered a vivid picture of Wilde as an artist. In his depiction, this artist, reinforced by his personal charm and mysterious character, worships art and condemns social reality.
  • Document: Zhou, Xiaoyi. Oscar Wilde : an image of artistic self-fashioning in modern China, 1909-1949. In : Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature : proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association‚ Literature as cultural memory, Leiden 1997. Ed. by Hua Meng, Sukehiro Hirakawa. (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2000). (WilO4, Publication)
  • Person: Wilde, Oscar
  • Person: Zhang, Wentian

Bibliography (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1922 [Wilde, Oscar]. Yu zhong ji. Wang'erde zhu ; Zhang Wentian, Wang Fuquan yi. In : Jue wu ; April-May (1922). = (Shanghai : Shang wu yin shu guan, 1932). (Wen xue yan jiu hui cong shu). Übersetzung von Wilde, Oscar. De profundis. (London : Methuen, 1905).
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