“Life, it is said, is one big book”, writes Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) in the introduction to his collection of essays Written in the Margins of Life published in 1941. And it is turning the pages of his life and of the life of his beloved companion, the playwright and essayist Yang Jiang (1911-) that the present article tries to delineate the literary achievements and the important role that the two Chinese intellectuals occupy in twentieth century China. The framework is offered by the International Conference “Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: a Centennial Perspective” that in December 2010 gathered together sixteen scholars and experts on Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to reflect and collect scholarly expertise in order to illustrate the achievements of the two writers and explain, through an analysis of their life and works, why they deserve to be known by a larger, non-specialist public.
100 years of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: A Centennial Perspective
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2014-01-01
Abstract
“Life, it is said, is one big book”, writes Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) in the introduction to his collection of essays Written in the Margins of Life published in 1941. And it is turning the pages of his life and of the life of his beloved companion, the playwright and essayist Yang Jiang (1911-) that the present article tries to delineate the literary achievements and the important role that the two Chinese intellectuals occupy in twentieth century China. The framework is offered by the International Conference “Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang: a Centennial Perspective” that in December 2010 gathered together sixteen scholars and experts on Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to reflect and collect scholarly expertise in order to illustrate the achievements of the two writers and explain, through an analysis of their life and works, why they deserve to be known by a larger, non-specialist public.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
