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256:. During the conquest, he fell in love with a woman and this woman made him yearn for sex for the first time in his life. However, General Hua's head was cut off by the enemy's general and the enemy's general's head was cut off by General Hua. When General Hua rode his horse back to the camp and brought the enemy general's head to meet the girl he loved, the headless General Hua was laughed at by his beloved girl. General Hua fell to his horse and died on the ground. At the end of the article, the Tibetan General's head was smiling, by contrast, General Hua's head on the ground was crying. 133:(Xiandai 现代 1932–1935). It was a monthly literary journal "which published a hundred translations from foreign literature (primarily U.S. and Japanese)". The journal introduced Chinese readers to trends in modern literature and art. It covered foreign and Chinese topics and promoted the works of Shi Zhecun's friends, such as 246:
he felt happy. Then the rain stopped and he had to part with the woman, and when he finally got home, his heart is full of loss and melancholy. Such a description technique shows the readers the psychological path of the protagonist in the text, which can attract readers and make the characters more vivid.
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Shi's short stories (about 70) were written between 1928 and 1937. They cover a range of topics, from absurdist ghost stories to gentler pieces on the strains faced by modern couples in Shanghai. His most famous short story is probably "An Evening of Spring Rain" (Meiyu zhi xi 梅雨之夕). His works set in
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is a story about a married man who suddenly encountered heavy rain on his way home from get off work and met a beautiful girl without an umbrella. It has a short plot and focuses more on the psychological description of this man. When he saw this woman and found that she looked like his first love,
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and was classified as a rightist and subjected to persecution. From that time and onwards he bid farewell to literary creation and translation and turned to the study of classical literature and tablet inscriptions jobs. But there has been mounting interest since the 1980s due to the influx of
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is a branch of literature that represents the new style and new kinds of expression, and Shi Zhecun, is one of the greatest Chinese representative authors of modernism . Under the historical background happened in 1919, which is the
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following his father who was a teacher. He showed an early interest in poetry and started publishing his works from his youth. He studied English in
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The General's Head (Jiangjun de tou 将军的头1932), An Evening of Spring Rain" (Meiyu zhi xi 梅雨之夕), Spring Festival Lamp (Shangyuan Deng上元灯)
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period, Shi Zhecun's works were banned because he was defined as a rightist writer (the second type of person who opposes the
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His creative works were long considered politically suspect by the Chinese government because in 1957 he published the essay
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Shanghai frequently deal with the inner lives of the protagonists as they are beset by irrational fears and desires.
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In view of his contribution to the literary creation and academic research, Shi Zhecun was awarded the
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Schaefer, William. “Kumarajiva's Foreign Tongue: Shi Zhecun's Modernist Historical Fiction.”
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Wang, Yiyan. “Venturing Into Shanghai: The ‘Flâneur’ in Two of Shi Zhecun's Short Stories.”
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On the Margins of Modernism: Xu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940s
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writes about General Hua of the Tang dynasty. He was commanded by the emperor to conquer
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Shi Zhecun was active on the Shanghai literary scene. He worked as the chief editor of
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during the 1930s. He was known for his poetry and essays, but is most known for his
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Rosenmeier, C. (2017). Tradition and Hybridity in Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying. In
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modernist thoughts into China. His works have been republished in recent years.
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short stories exploring the psychological conditions of Shanghai urbanites (see
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Rosenmeier, Christopher. “Women Stereotypes in Shi Zhecun's Short Stories.”
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among others. He became a scholar on classical culture and did research on
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Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
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In 1947, he returned to Shanghai and began writing essays, and after the
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In 1937, after the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, Shi Zhecun moved to
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into Chinese and worked as a scholar of classical Chinese literature.
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Outstanding Contribution to Shanghai Literature and Art Award
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Miscellaneous Poems of a Floating Life (Fusheng zayong 浮生杂咏)
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Asian Chinese Writer Literary Foundation Consolation Award
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Shi Zhecun was born in Zhejiang, but later he moved to
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Chinese name
family name
Shi
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Shanghai
modernist
New Sensationists
western novels
Songjiang
Jiangsu
Shanghai
Aurora university
Mu Shiying
Dai Wangshu
Yunnan
Arthur Schnitzler
Tang dynasty
Cultural Revolution
East China Normal University
Chinese Writers Association.
Chinese Cultural Revolution
Communist Party
socialism
Modernism
May Fourth Movement
Sigmund Freud
psychoanalytic

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