Austen, Jane

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.

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".

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."

Zheng, Zhenduo. Wen xue da gang [ID D11275].
Erwähnung von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Hölderlin, Henrik Ibsen, Walt Whitman, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Darin enthalten ist eine Abhandlung über Faust von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Zheng alluded to William Dean Howells' famous appellation for Mark Twain as 'the Lincoln of American literature'. He asserts that Huckleberry Finn is Twain's most important representative work.
He described Georg Brandes as 'the most important critic of Europe'.
Zheng mentioned Jane Austen, but said very briefly that her works have calm irony, delicate characterization, and pleasing style.
Washington Irving made American literature first recognized in Europe, while it is Edgar Allan Poe who first made American literature greatly influence European literature. In 1909, the year of Poe's centennial, the whole of Europe, from London to Moscow, and from Christiania to Rome, claimed its indebtedness to Poe and praised his great success.
Zheng Zhenduo regarded Nathaniel Hawthorne as "the first person who wrote tragedy in America". It was Hawthorne's emphasis upon psychological description that led to Zheng's high praise. According to Zheng's theory, the American tradition in literature exerted a strong influence upon Hawthorne's exploration of the depth of the human soul. "Hawthorne's psychological description could be traced back to Charles Brown."

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.

[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.

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.

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."

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."

[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.

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."

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.

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.

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Jian Aosiding zhu ; Yang Bin [Yang Gang] yi. Vol. 1-2. (Shanghai : Shang wu yin shu guan, 1935). (Shi jie wen xue ming zhu). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Jiao ao yu pian jian. Aosiding nu shi zhu ; Dong Zhongchi yi. (Bejing : Da xue chu ban she, 1935. Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
驕傲与偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Aima. Aositing zhu ; Liu Zhongde yi. (Shanghai : Zheng feng chu ban she, 1949). (Shi jie wen xue ming zhu yi cong). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Emma : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : Printed for John Murray, 1816).
愛瑪

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Aosting ; Dong Liu yi. (Xianggang : Shi dai shu ju, 1954). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Aosiding ; Wang Keyi yi. (Shanghai : Xin wen yi chu ban she, 1956). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Nuosangjue si. Aosiding zhu ; Ma Qiaozhi yi. (Shanghai : Xin wen yi chu ban she, 1958). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. With a biographical notice of the author by Henry Austen. Vol. 1-4. (London : John Murray, 1818).
諾桑覺寺

[Austen, Jane]. Yima. Aosiding zhuan ; Yang Naiming yi. (Taibei : Bei xing, 1958). (Shi jie wen xue ming zhu yi cong). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Emma : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : Printed for John Murray, 1816).
伊瑪

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Dong Yu yi. (Taibei : Xin lu shu ju, 1960). (Xin yi shi jie wen xue ming zhu). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Yima. Aosiding zhuan ; Dong Yu yi. (Taibei : Xin lu, 1963). (Shi jie wen xue ming zhu xin yi). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Emma : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : Printed for John Murray, 1816).
伊瑪

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Chen Wanchuan, Hui Nahe yi. (Xianggang : Zhongguo chu ban she, 1965). (Xue sheng ji ben wen cong). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Aosiding ; Zhang Zhicheng yi. (Gaoxiong : Da zhong, 1971). (Shi jie ming zhu). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Aosiding zhu ; Chen Zhengyang yi. (Taibei : Zheng wen shu ju, 1971). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Aosiding zhuan ; Chen Zhichang yi. (Tainan : Da fu cheng, 1978). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Jian Aositing zhu ; Yuan jing bian ji bu bian xuan zhe. (Taibei : Yuan jing chu ban she, 1978). (Shi jie wen xue quan ji ; 10). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Zhen Aositing zhu ; Wen Zijian zhu bian ; Chen Huiling yi zhe. (Xinjie, Hong Kong : Xue lin shu dian, ca. 1980). (Shi jie wen xue ming zhu ; 5). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Jian Aositing zhu ; Zhong Si yi. (Taibei : Yuan jing chu ban she, 1981). (Shi jie wen xue quan ji ; 20). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

[Austen, Jane]. Ao man yu pian jian. Gao Huiyun bian yi. (Hong Kong : Ya yuan chu ban she, 1982). (Shi jie ming zhu fan yi). Übersetzung von Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice : a novel. Vol. 1-3. (London : T. Egerton, 1813).
傲慢與偏見

Aosiding yan jiu. Zhongguo she hui ke xue yuan wai guo wen xue yan jiu suo wai guo wen xue yan jiu zi liao cong shu bian ji wei yuan hui bian ; Zhu Hong bian xuan. (Beijing : Zhongguo wen lian chu ban gong si, 1985). (Wai guo wen xue yan jiu zi liao cong shu). [Abhandlung über Jane Austen].
奧斯丁硏究

[Fitzpatrick, William J.]. Jian Aositing de Ao man yu pian jian. Zhang Honglian yi. (Beijing : Wai yu jiao xue yu yan jiu chu ban she, 1996). (Shi jie jing dian wen xue zuo pin shang xi). Übersetzung von Fitzpatrick, William J. Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. (New York, N.Y. : Monarch Press, 1964).
簡奧斯汀的傲慢與偏見

[Laski, Marghanita]. Zhen Aositing. Maganita Lasiqi zhu ; Huang Meizhi, Chen Yating yi. (Taibei : Mao tou ying chu ban she, 1999). (Zuo jia yu zuo pin ; 5). Übersetzung von Laski, Marghanita. Jane Austen and her world. (London : Thames and Hudson, 1969).
珍奥斯汀

Shi, Lidong ; Wang Mingxin. Ai tiao wu de nü wen hao : Zhen Aosiding de mei li. Gao Xin, Ni Jing hui. (Taibei : San min shu ju gu fen you xian gong si, 1999). (Er tong wen xue cong shu). [Abhandlung über Jane Austen].
愛跳舞的女文豪 : 珍奧斯汀的魅力

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