Biography of Huang Zunxian

Author: Zheng Hailin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Huang Zunxian was an early advocate of the poetic revolution in modern Chinese literature. At a young age, he wrote poems against the imitation of ancient styles, striving to express "my poetry." Huang Zunxian's poetic theories and practices laid an important foundation for the poetic revolution of the bourgeois reformists. He pursued the goal of "old style with new connotations." Using realistic methods, he reflected major historical events of the modern era, especially the main contradictions of modern Chinese society, earning him the title of "poetic history." His poems demonstrated a strong patriotic spirit and a critical stance against feudal autocracy, feudal academic culture, and old rituals. He also used poetry to directly serve the reformist movement, promoting reformist ideas and foreign science and civilization. This book vividly portrays the (: full of hardships yet brilliant) life of Huang Zunxian, the outstanding patriotic poet, statesman, diplomat, and educator of late Qing China.