Selected Works of Yan Fu

Author: Yan Fu
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: In the life of Yan Fu (1853—1921), major historical events in China took place, including the Taiping Rebellion, the Second Opium War, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Hundred Days' Reform, the Boxer Rebellion, the Xinhai Revolution, and the May Fourth Movement. This was the "process in which imperialism and Chinese feudalism combined to turn China into a semi-colonial and colonial country, which was also the process in which the Chinese people resisted imperialism and its lackeys." Yan Fu's political activities were mainly before the Hundred Days' Reform. At that time, he sought truth in the West and promoted the theories of the reform, which showed his progressive tendencies. But after the Hundred Days' Reform, due to the development of the situation, he became conservative and gradually turned reactionary. To understand Yan Fu's shift from progressive to reactionary, one must understand the era he lived in. This book is one of the "Selected Poems and Prose of Modern Literary Masters," the Selected Works of Yan Fu, edited and annotated by Zhou Zhenpu, and includes representative poems and prose by Yan Fu.