The Complete Works of Zhu Guangqian, Volume 20

Author: Zhu Guangqian
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Publish Date: 1997-12-01
Features: The Complete Works of Zhu Guangqian, written by Zhu Guangqian, published by Anhui Education Press from August 1987 to December 1992, with a total of 7 million words. It consists of 20 volumes. The first ten volumes include all of Zhu Guangqian's works, Volume 1 includes Twelve Letters to Youth, Schools of Abnormal Psychology, and Psychology of Art. Twelve Letters to Youth is the author's breakthrough work. Volume 2 includes On Beauty, Schools of Abnormal Psychology, and Psychology of Tragedy. Psychology of Tragedy was written in English during the author's doctoral studies in France and published in 1933. It was translated into Chinese by Zhang Longxi in 1983 and published by People's Literature Publishing House. Volume 3 includes On Poetry, Me and Literature and Others. Me and Literature and Others is an enlarged edition of Mengshi Literary Anthology. Volume 4 includes On Self-Cultivation, On Literature, A Review of Croce's Philosophy (Revised Edition). Volume 5 includes A Collection of Critical Essays on Aesthetics, A Brief Talk on Aesthetics, and A Collection of Aesthetic Gleanings. A Collection of Critical Essays on Aesthetics includes 10 essays written by the author during the 1950s aesthetic debate. A Brief Talk on Aesthetics can be considered a continuation of On Beauty. Volumes 6 and 7 include the revised editions of the first and second parts of A History of Western Aesthetics, respectively, and also include relevant parts of the unfinished Appendix to the Sources of A History of Western Aesthetics. Volumes 8, 9, and 10 include articles and letters published by the author from 1921 to 1937, 1938 to 1949, and 1950 to 1987, respectively. Volumes 11 to 20 include all of the author's translations. The 20th volume is a collection of translations of works such as [French] Bédier (now translated as Bédier) Cédric and Isolde, [Italian] Croce Principles of Aesthetics (Revised Edition), and [American] Havelaar The Social Origins of Art. Volume 12 includes [Greek] Plato Dialogues on Art (Revised Edition) and Another Island of England. Volumes 13 to 16 include [German] Hegel Aesthetics. Volume 17 includes [German] Lessing Laocoon and [German] Eckmann Goethe's Conversations (Selected Translation). Volumes 18 and 19 include [Italian] Vico The New Science. The 20th volume includes single-paragraph translations published by the author that were not collected into books. (Xu Zhenxuan)