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Hu, Xiansu

(Nanchang 1894-1968 Beijing) : Botaniker, Professor Nanjing University, China Central Academy

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Chronology Entries (3)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1920 Hu, Xiansu. [The latest tendency in European-American modern literature] [ID D34934].
"Poe is a famours short story writer. It is Poe who made the short story a literary form. His writing techniques have been followed by the later short story writers. And his influence is particularly felt in the French short stories".
  • Document: Sheng, Ning ; Stauffer, Donald Barlow. The influence of Edgar Allen Poe on modern Chinese literature. In : The University of Mississippi studies in English ; N.S., vol. 3 (1982).[This article is adapted from the M.A. thesis by Mr. Sheng Ning for the Department of Western Languages and Literature of Peking University in 1981]. (Poe5, Publication)
  • Person: Poe, Edgar Allan
2 1922-1931 Gründung der Vereinigung Xu cheng durch Mei Guangdi, Hu Xiansu und Wu Mi in Nanjing. Sie führen Romantik und Realismus und westliche Klassiker in China ein.
3 1922 [Babbitt, Irving]. Baibide zhong xi ren wen jiao yu tan. Hu Xiansu yi. [ID D28798].
In the editor's preface, Wu Mi tried to make Babbitt (known to his Chinese readers as Baibide) relevant to 1920s China. He ignored Babbitt's role in the American debate on higher education ; instead, he depicted him as a foreign expert who had answers to Chinese questions. First, he stressed that despite Babbitt's inability to read Chinese, he was well informed regarding the recent development in China. He told his readers, that Mr. Baibide 'is particularly concerned with the affairs of our country, and he reads all the published works on our country'. Second he pointed out that as 'a leading literary critic in America', Mr. Baibide offered a vision of society fundamentally different from that of other Western thinkers. While other Western thinkers stressed the benefits of scientism and materialism in producing more consumer goods, Mr. Baibide focused on the role of religion and morality in shaping an individual's spiritual life. As other Western thinkers saw modern Europe as the apex of human development, Mr. Baibide combined the learning of 'East and West, and past and present'.
Wu told his readers that from Babbitt's perspective, there was an oneness in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle in the West, and those of Siddhartha Guatama and Confucius in the East.
  • Document: Hon, Tze-ki. From Babbitt to "Bai Bide" : interpretations of new humanism in 'Xueheng'. In : Beyond the May fourth paradigm : in search of Chinese modernity. Ed. by Kai-wing Chow [et al.]. (Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2008). (Babb8, Publication)
  • Person: Babbitt, Irving
  • Person: Wu, Mi

Bibliography (4)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1920 Hu, Xiansu. [The latest tendency in European-American modern literature]. In : Dong fang za zhi ; vol. 17 (1920). Publication / Poe7
  • Cited by: Sheng, Ning ; Stauffer, Donald Barlow. The influence of Edgar Allen Poe on modern Chinese literature. In : The University of Mississippi studies in English ; N.S., vol. 3 (1982).[This article is adapted from the M.A. thesis by Mr. Sheng Ning for the Department of Western Languages and Literature of Peking University in 1981]. (Poe5, Published)
  • Person: Poe, Edgar Allan
2 1922 [Babbitt, Irving]. Baibide zhong xi ren wen jiao yu tan. Hu Xiansu yi. In : Xue heng ; 3 (March 1922). Übersetzung von Babbitt, Irving. Humanistic education in China and the West. In : Chinese students' monthly ; vol. 17, no 2 (Dec. 1921). [Vorlesung Harvard University].
白璧德中西人文敎育談 		Publication / Babb6
3 1929 [Mercier, Louis J.]. Baibide yu ren wen zhu yi. Xu Zhen'e, Wu Mi, Hu Xiansu he yi. (Shanghai : Xin yue shu dian, 1929). Übersetzung von Mercier, Louis J. Le mouvement humaniste aux Etats-Univs : W.C. Brownell, Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More. (Paris : Hachette, 1928). [Irving Babbitt].
白璧德與人文主義 		Publication / Babb4
4 1977 Liang, Shiqiu ; Hou, Jian. Guan yu Baibide da shi. (Taibei : Chu lang chu ban she, 1977). [Abhandlung über Irving Babbitt].
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[Enthält] : [Irving, Babbitt]. "Baibide zhong xi ren wen jiao yu tan". Hu Xiansu yi.
胡先驌譯 "白璧德中西人文敎育談" 		Publication / Babb7