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Name
  
Zeng Pu

Role
  
Novelist


Died
  
1935, Changshu, China

Books
  
Niehai Hua

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Zeng Pu (simplified Chinese: 曾朴; traditional Chinese: 曾樸; pinyin: Zēng Pǔ; Wade–Giles: Tseng P'u; 1872-1935) was a Chinese novelist.

Contents

Zeng Pu published a scholarly work on the later Han Dynasty in 1895. He later enrolled in the College of Foreign Languages in Beijing to learn the French language. Zeng Pu returned to Jiangsu in 1898 and built a school. In 1903 he began a business in Shanghai. The business failed. He returned to his focus in literature. Zeng Pu was a Francophile.

Writing style

The language in Zeng Pu's novels borrowed illusions and images from classical Chinese literature and Zeng Pu used symbolism in his novels. Therefore, his works appealed to readers who had a classical education and were considered sophisticated in their society.

Zeng Pu knew the French language. David Der-wei Wang, author of Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911, wrote that Zeng Pu was "probably" the sole late Qing novelist who knew a foreign language. David Wang explained that since Zeng Pu knew French he had "direct access to European literature without the mediation of distorted translations."

The First Sino-Japanese War had a large effect on Zeng Pu.

Works

Jin Tianhe (Jin Songcen) started A Flower in a Sinful Sea as a political novel criticizing Russian advances into China. Zeng Pu took control of the novel in 1904. Zeng Pu completed the novel, transforming it into a historical novel.

References

Zeng Pu Wikipedia


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