Selected Prose Works of Yuan Changying

Author: Yuan Changying
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Yuan Changying, a Hunan writer born into a scholarly family and educated for a long time in churches and Anglo-French schools, was deeply influenced by both Chinese traditional culture and Western culture. Her life was intertwined with the cultural thoughts of Europe and Asia. From the creation and reshaping of female characters in her dramatic works, we can explore how Yuan Changying integrated Chinese and Western cultures and arts to create modern Chinese plays with a unique personal style. She was one of China's earliest renowned female scholars and specialists in foreign literature and the history of art. As early as the late 1920s, she wrote French Literature (edited series; 1929, Commercial Press). Later, she introduced Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Hardy to Chinese readers. In the 1940s, she wrote French Literature again (1944, Commercial Press). Additionally, she authored works such as The History of Western Music. She was a university professor and taught courses on drama, French, Greek mythology, Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, and modern European drama for decades on the lecture platform.