Qian Zhongshu and Modern Western Learning

Author: Ji Jin
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is part of the Shanghai Sanlian Academic Collection. It is divided into five chapters, delving into the issues of Mr. Qian Zhongshu and hermeneutics, deconstructionism, formal criticism, and more, providing an in-depth exploration of Mr. Qian Zhongshu's research on modern Western studies.
Qian Zhongshu (1910.11.21-) is a pseudonym of Qian Mocun, also known as Huajiu. He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He studied at the Taowu Middle School in Suzhou, run by a church, and Wuxi Ren Middle School in his early years. After graduating from the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University in 1933, he taught at Shanghai Guanghua University. In 1935, he married Yang Tao and went to the United Kingdom for further studies. In 1937, he graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK with a master's degree and then went to the University of Paris in France to study French literature. In the autumn of 1938, he returned to China and successively served as a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Southwest Associated University in Kunming and as the head of the English Department at the National Normal College in Lantian, Hunan. In 1941, while returning home for a visit, he was stranded in Shanghai due to the occupation and wrote the novel Fortress Besieged and the short story collection Humans, Beasts, and Gods. Fortress Besieged has been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish. Most of his essays are collected in the book Written on the Edge of Life. A Record of Literary Talks is a pioneering comparative study of Chinese and Western poetry. At the same time, he taught or worked at Jianshan University, the Central Library, and Tsinghua University in Shanghai. After 1953, he served as a researcher at the Institute of Literary Research at Peking University. His multi-volume work The Annotated Conversations of the Jade Pigeon examines and annotates famous ancient Chinese classics, including Confucian, historical, and philosophical texts, while also exploring and analyzing the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures and literatures. He is currently the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
This book is comprehensive in content, well-structured, and clearly organized. It possesses high scientific rigor, systematicity, theoretical depth, and academic value. For scholars engaged in related research, this book serves as an extremely valuable reference.