A Brief Analysis of the Heroine of Moment in Peking
Ⅰ. Introduction
Written in August 1938 to August 1939,Moment in Peking was an English novel in which Lin Yutang lived in Paris and he dedicated “to the brave soldiers of China who are laying down theirs lives that our children and grandchildren shall be free men and women.” The book’s English title is Moment in Peking, the Chinese title was translated into 京华烟云(Jing Hua Yan Yun) or 瞬息京华(Shun Xi Jing Hua). Originally, the author intended to translate “A Dream of Red Mansions” into English language, he wanted to introduce it to western readers, but he failed. Then he decided to write a novel, the structure will follow with the “A Dream of Red Mansions”, so Moment in Peking wrote.
Moment in Peking described three families of 本
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英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供Yao, Tseng, New, from 1901 TaiPing Rebellion to 1938 Anti-Japanese war, over 30 years story. And in this book, also tell us the story of the TaiPing Rebellion, May 4th Moment and so on. The Moment in Peking is a panoramic display of modern Chinese social and expressed the changing of history. Since the end of 1939 in the United States the book was published, it had been sold over 50,000 in half a year. And TIME magazine had been said, “it may well become the classic background novel of modern China .”
Ⅱ. Work introduction and introduction of the author
A.Author introduction and creation background
Lin Yutang (October 3, 1895 - March 26,1976) Fujian Longxi people. Old name was HeLe(和乐), then named Yutang(玉堂),after changed to Yutang(语堂). 1912 he studied in St. John's University in Shanghai, then he graduated and taught in Tsinghua University. Autumn of 1919,he studied in the United States Department of Literature at Harvard University. In 1922, he was get a master's degree in literature. In the same year, he went to Germany, studied in the University of Leipzig, specialized in linguistics. When he got a doctor degree he returned to China , as a professor at Beijing University. He was a Head of the English Department in Beijing Women Normal University. In 1924 he became the author of "Yusi(语丝)". In 1926 he became the president of the literature of 本
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英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供Xiamen University. Since 1935, in the United States he began writing novel in English, Moment in Peking, My People and My Country, etc. Then he died in Hong Kong in 1976.
B. Overview of the novel
In 1901, Yao Mulan was nine. In that year her family moved to Beijing to avoid the war. In the road, she was abducted by traffickers. Fortunately, she was recued by Tseng Wenpo (her father-in-law in the future). Then the two families became good to each other. Ten years later, Mulan has become a beautiful and intelligent lady. She not only proficient in instruments, chess, poetry and painting, but also by his father Yao Si-an’s effect she proficient the script on Jia-Gu. And she became a famous person in Beijing city. The first son of Tseng’s ―Pingya got a severs illness, his mother wanted to save him. So she decided to let Pingya got married as soon as possible! Although Pingya has an engagement with his cousin, Sun Mannia, but she far from in the South, and had no connect with them. So his mother had immediately thought of Yao Mulan!
Yao Mulan refused Tseng’s request. She always put him as a brother, and Mannia with her like sisters. In addition to, there is a young man in her mind, Kung Li-fu, who is also her teacher’s student. They, with the same pu
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