Novel Beijing China Smoke and Clouds

Novel Jinghua Smoke and Clouds

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Novel***Three parts. The first, "Daughters of the Taoist", is written from 1900 to 1909. The winds of the Eight-Power Allied Forces invasion are getting tighter and tighter, and Yao Si'an, a wealthy businessman with millions of dollars in assets and a follower of Taoism, leaves the capital to go south, and in the midst of the military turmoil, Yao Mulan, a ten-year-old girl of the Yao family, is separated from her family, and is later received by Zeng Wenpu, a government official in the capital, at his home. Mulan and Xinya, the third son of the Zeng family, were seen as a match made in heaven.

A few years later, Yao Mulan grew up to be a beautiful and skillful girl. At that time, the two families' quiet life was shattered by a series of worldly ups and downs. A young man, Kong Lifu, who is very ambitious, comes into the circle of Yao's family life, and also into Yao Mulan's heart. Mulan marries Xinya, so that the daughter of the Taoist family becomes the daughter-in-law of the Confucian family, while Mulan loves Kong Lifu in her heart.

The second part of the "courtyard tragedy", the narrative of the evil forces of the cattle family's power and the decline and collapse of the process, after which, the brushstrokes back to the courtyard of the Yao family, to show a scene of tragedy: Yao's eldest son, Diren's death, Diren's mother got a strange disease that has not been cured for a long time, Yao Mulan's uncle, Feng Zai-an's daughter, Feng Hongyu, throws herself into a lake, Yao Sian thinks that his duties to the family have been completed, cut his hair to change the decoration and get out of the courtyard, out of the cloud travel. Declared to return after ten years.

The third part, "Autumn Song," depicts the lives of Yao and Zeng's families during the twenty years from the eve of the May Fourth Movement to the occupation of Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou by Japanese invading forces. As time passes, the third generation of the Zeng and Yao families grows up. The invasion of Japanese imperialism brought deep disasters to the Chinese people. The Mulan family traveled west away from Hangzhou.

Along the way, there were people fleeing for their lives. Mulan took in three orphans and a newborn baby on the way west, and she felt that although she had reached the fall of her life, the next generation was in the spring, "containing the lullaby of youth in the song of falling leaves in the late fall". The novel ends in "Autumn Song".

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Yao Mulan

Yao Mulan grew up in a rich family, and was influenced by her father, Yao Sian, a Taoist devotee, who was tolerant, generous, kind and amiable, and who revered Laozhuang, sang and smiled at nature, and stayed in the mountains and rivers. In Mr. Lin's writing, she is a "typical woman" worthy of the praise of the sages of Laozhuang. Taoism, which originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, has changed dramatically since the 1930s.

Yao Mulan was influenced by Taoism, but the times stamped new traces on her, leading her into society and into the anti-Japanese flood of millions of people. This is precisely the meaning of Yao Mulan's image in the novel.

Sun Manni

Sun Manni, the loyal and filial daughter-in-law, seldom uses mental process and verbal process, which shows her passivity and obedience; and tends to use declarative sentences and median modal verbs, which shows that she is very conservative and obedient and has no idea of her own.

Niu Suyun

For the anti-traditional daughter-in-law, Niu Suyun, she mainly adopts material processes to express her behavioral habits, and she rarely uses modal verbs in her discourse, which shows that she is very proud and arrogant and rude.

Yao Sian

Yao Sian's father had been a rich merchant when he was alive, and later his son, Yao Sian, inherited these uncountable family possessions, which included many pharmacy bureaus, some pawnshops, and others, some tea stores. Probably because Yao Si'an's money a lifetime to enjoy endless, in his prime time, he and other rich second generation to go to the restaurant consumption, but also to go to the brothel to find fun, behavior is extremely debauchery, almost like a hooligan.

This has also damaged the family's reputation. However, by the time he had a wife and child, incredibly, he was no longer the original man of debauchery. He began to realize more and more that after all the storms, he should be calm and stable and peaceful and transcend the worldly life.

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Title: The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing

Author: Lin Yutang

Douban Rating: 9.2

Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing House

Publishing Year: 2009-3

Pages: 951

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Author's Biography:

Lin Yutang was a native of Longxi, Fujian. His original name was Hele, later changed to Yutang, then Yutang. in 1912, he entered St. John's University in Shanghai, and after graduation, taught at Tsinghua University. in the fall of 1919, he went to the United States to the Department of Literature at Harvard University. in 1922, he was awarded the master's degree of literature. In the same year, she went to Germany to join the University of Leipzig, specializing in linguistics, and returned to China in 1923 after receiving her doctorate, where she served as a professor at Peking University, provost of the Beijing Women's Normal University, and head of the Department of English, and was one of the main contributors to the "Language and Silk" magazine from 1924 onwards; she was appointed Dean of Literature at Xiamen University in 1926, and became the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1927, and in 1932, she was the chief editor of "The Analects of Confucius," a semi-monthly magazine. In 1934, he founded The Human World, and in 1935, he founded Cosmic Wind, advocating "self-centered, leisurely style" of small essays. 1935, after the U.S., he wrote "My Country and My People", "The Smoke and Cloud of Beijing", "The Wind and the Crane", and other cultural writings and full-length novels in English, and returned to China to give lectures in Chongqing for a while. 1945, he went to Singapore to prepare for the founding of the Nanyang University. In 1945, he went to Singapore to establish Nanyang University and served as its president; in 1952, he co-founded the magazine Tianfeng in the U.S. In 1966, he settled in Taiwan; in 1967, he was appointed as a research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; in 1975, he was elected vice president of International PEN; and in 1976, he died in Hong Kong.

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Tell me my personal feelings~I watched the TV series before I read the novel, and after reading it, I felt it was really different. The TV series, not to mention, completely out of flavor, a lot of characters are misplaced, the biggest hard hit is Yao Mulan's split personality, although there are also colorful places but and the novel is not all the way ~ the novel gives me a feeling of comfort, the text is more in the details of the description of the place, after all, the original is in English, MomentinPecking, aimed at allowing foreigners to understand some of China's traditional culture and the Chinese people's spirit of life and death. I spent an afternoon reading it, but still have the will to read some more details, in short, I feel very good. People say that this book is the dream of the red chamber in miniature, indeed there are a lot of shadows, Hongyu Baofen just like Bao Dai, and Mulan Mochou also has the shadow of these two people, but not as much as the dream of the red chamber so emotionally let a person ups and downs, sensitive, very sensitive, and Yao Mulan and Kong Lifu crush on the description of the people also feel natural, not pretentious.

In any case, now I'm afraid that few people are willing to take a good book to be quiet and savor it, so I still encourage the owner to read it, because it's worth a look! Inside the content is not radical, full of books, why not do it ~ in addition to suggesting that the owner after reading the Chinese version, such as wanting to recall can then read the English version, you can better appreciate the Mr. Lin learning to cross the Chinese and Western words and phrases, but also to strengthen the next English reading ~

Wish the owner good luck ~

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Title: The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing

Author: Lin Yutang

Translator: Zhang Zhenyu

Douban rating: 8.5

Publisher: Shaanxi Normal University Press

Publication year: 2005-7

Pages: 611

Synopsis: The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing is a full-length novel written in English by Lin Yutang during his stay in Paris between August 1938 and August 1939, and titled Moment in Peking, dedicated to the "valiant Chinese soldiers". Smoke and Clouds" is the title of the book after it was translated into Chinese, and there are also translations of the book as "Instantaneous Beijing and China". Lin Yutang originally intended to translate Dream of Red Mansions into English to introduce it to Western readers, but failed to do so, and thereafter decided to write a full-length novel modeled on the structure of Dream of Red Mansions, resulting in The Smoke and Clouds of Beijing.

The novel tells the story of the three great families of Zeng, Yao and Niu in Beiping, from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 to the War of Resistance against Japan, over a period of more than 30 years, with Yuan Shikai's usurpation of the state, Zhang Xun's restoration of the state, the battle of ZhiFeng, the Warlords' Rebellion, the May Fourth Movement, the tragic case of March 18th, the war of the warlords, and the war of the Chinese. March 18th tragedy, the pen battle between the "Silk School" and the "Modern Critics", the "leftist" youth, the outbreak of World War II, and other historical events. It is a panoramic view of the changing historical landscape of modern Chinese society. Published in the United States at the end of 1939, The Smoke and Clouds in Beijing sold more than 50,000 copies in just half a year, and Time magazine called it "very likely to become the most popular book in the history of China"

Author's biography:Lin Yutang is a native of Longxi, Fujian Province. He was originally known as Huale, later changed to Yutang, and then changed to Yutang. 1912, he entered St. John's University in Shanghai, and after graduation, he taught at Tsinghua University, and in the fall of 1919, he went to the Department of Literature at Harvard University in the U.S. He was awarded the master's degree in literature in 1922. In the same year, she went to Germany to join the University of Leipzig, specializing in linguistics, and returned to China in 1923 after receiving her doctorate, where she served as a professor at Peking University, provost of the Beijing Women's Normal University, and head of the Department of English, and was one of the main contributors to the "Language and Silk" magazine from 1924 onwards; she was appointed Dean of Literature at Xiamen University in 1926, and became the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1927, and in 1932, she was chief editor of the semi-monthly "Discourses of the People", and founded "The Human World" in 1934. In 1934, he founded The Human World, and in 1935, he founded Cosmic Wind, advocating "self-centered, leisurely style" of small essays. 1935, after the U.S., he wrote "My Country and My People", "The Smoke and Cloud of Beijing", "The Wind and the Crane", and other cultural writings and full-length novels in English, and returned to China to give lectures in Chongqing for a while. 1945, he went to Singapore to prepare for the founding of the Nanyang University. In 1945, he went to Singapore to establish Nanyang University and served as its president; in 1952, he co-founded the magazine Tianfeng in the U.S. In 1966, he settled in Taiwan; in 1967, he was appointed research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; in 1975, he was elected vice president of International PEN; and in 1976, he passed away in Hong Kong.