#ModernChina

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-17

#BOTD (for real this time): Lufei Kui 陸費逵 (1886–1941), #Chinese #linguist, reformer, educator, and founder of Zhonghua (Chung Hwa) Book Company #中華書局. #ModernChina #ChineseLinguistics #Publishers

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-12

#BOTD: Qian Xuantong 錢玄同 (1887–1939), Chinese writer and linguist, one of the leaders of the May Fourth and New Culture Movement #五四運動 #新文化運動; a promoter of #Esperanto, he wanted to abolish Written Chinese. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #白話文 #文言文 #新青年 #疑古派 #學衡 #linguist #ModernChina #Linguistics

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-12

#BOTD: Kuan Kwang Tsoong 鍾觀光 (1868–1940), Chinese #botanist. #Botany #Science #ModernChina

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-05

#BOTD in #ModernChina: Rong Geng 容庚 (1894–1983), palaeographer and expert on Zhou 周 (1045–256 BCE) bronze inscriptions 金文. Student of Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940).

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-03

#DOTD: Chen Mengjia 陳夢家 (1911–suicide 1966), #Chinese scholar of palaeography and archaeology, an expert on oracle bones #甲骨文 and bronze inscriptions #金文 from the Yin-Shang 殷商 period (16th–11th cent. BCE). #CulturalRevolution #文化大革命 #ModernChina

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-01

#DOTD (2024/08/30): Qian Mu 錢穆 (1895–1990), one of the most important intellectual #historians of the twentieth century. #ModernChina #國史大綱 New #Confucianism #宋明理學

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-09-01

#DOTD: Yang Kuan 楊寬 (1914–2005), #classicist and #historian of pre-imperial 先秦 #ChineseHistory. A member of the Doubting Antiquity/Debates on Ancient History Group #古史辨派, he is one of the greatest scholars of the Warring States 戰國 period (475–221) in #ModernChina

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-24

#DOTD: Wang Liqi 王利器 (1912–1998), commentator, collator, and textual critic of classical #Chinese texts such as The Literary Mind and the Carving of #Dragons #文心雕龍, The Grand Scribe's Record 史記, & Water Margin 水滸傳

#校勘學 #文史哲 #熊德基 #ClassicsTwitter #ModernChina

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-23

#BOTD: He Qifang 何其芳 (1912–1977), #Chinese poet and literary critic. #ModernChina #ChineseLiterature

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-17

#BOTD: Yang Jiang 楊絳 (1911–2016), playwright and translator who produced the first complete #Chinese translation of #DonQuixote #唐吉訶德. Completed in the 1960s, it was confiscated by #RedGuards during the #CulturalRevolution #文化大革命 and only published in 1978. #ModernChina

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-16

#DOTD in #ModernChina: Hu Xiansu 胡先驌 (1894–1968), #Chinese botanist and co-founder of the journal #CriticalReview #學衡, in whose first issue he severely criticised attempts by Hu Shih #胡適 (no relation) and others to write poetry in the Modern Vernacular #白話文. #新文化運動

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-14

#DOTD: Liu Bannong 劉半農 (1891–1934), author, linguist, and translator of Sherlock Holmes in #ModernChina. A pioneer of vernacular 白話 poetry, simplified characters 简体字, and photography, he coined the distinction of masculine 他, feminine 她, and neuter 它 (all 'tā' in MSC).

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-11
Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-04

#BOTD in #ModernChina: Shen Dehong 沈德鴻 (1896–1981), pen name Mao Dun 茅盾, #Chinese novelist and politician, most celebrated for his novel Midnight 子夜.

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-03

#BOTD in #ModernChina: Chen Yinke 陳寅恪 (1890–1969) or Yinque (based on a disputed Fujian-Hakka 福建客家 reading of the character 恪), #Chinese historian, #medievalist, #philologist, and founder of Chinese #MedievalStudies #中古史 #不古不今 #魏晉南北朝隋唐 #獨立之精神自由之思想

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-07-01

#DOTD in #ModernChina : Zhang Shizhao #章士釗 (1881–1973), Chinese educator, journalist, and politician. Editor of the journal The Tiger 甲寅, he promoted Confucian values and #ClassicalChinese education in the wake of the #NewCultureMovement #新文化運動. #CulturalConservative #China

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-06-23

#DOTD: Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 (1893–1988), modern #Confucian philosopher who was strongly influenced by #Indian #Buddhist #philosophy. #ModernChina #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseReligion

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺medievalchina@zirk.us
2024-06-22

#DOTD: Gao Jianfu 高劍父 (1879–1951), #Cantonese painter and representative of the #Lingnan School of (modern #Chinese) #Painting #嶺南 畫派. #ModernChina #Art #VisualArts #ModernArt

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