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Jia Zhangke: Master of Chinese Cinema – The Revolutionary Filmmaker Who Captured Modern China’s Soul.

https://vibesmagazine.blog/jia-zhangke-master-of-chinese-cinema-the-revolutionary-filmmaker-who-captured-modern-chinas-soul/

#China #directors #filmsglobalization #JiaZhangkecareer #JiaZhangkefilms #filmmakers #modernchina #culture #movies #ChinaSixthGenerationfilmmakers #vb_mgzn

#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

#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

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

#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).

#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

#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

#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

#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

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

#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

#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

#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).

one of the most influential academic #philosophers and #historians of #Chinese #philosophy and #religion in #ModernChina.
#Daoism #道教 #Buddhism #佛教 #哲學 #宗教

#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.

#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

#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

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

#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

#Periodisation of #ChineseHistory in Francis Lister Hawks Pott (1864-1947), A Sketch of Chinese History, first published in 1904. Pott was an #American #Episcopal #missionary #periodization #China #Missiology #ChristianMissionInChina #missionaries #ModernChina

#DOTD in #ModernChina: Zhang Taiyan 章太炎, a.k.a. Zhang Binglin #章炳麟 (1869–1936)

#DOTD: Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892–1978), #Chinese historian and #classicist of #Hakka #客家 descent. One of the most influential scholars of #ModernChina and first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences #中國科學院, he is often seen as a mouthpiece of Mao #毛澤東 and the #CCP.

#OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing #清 government.

#OTD 1839: Lin Zexu #林則徐 (1785–1850), Imperial Commissioner of the Qing #清 (1636–1911) seizes and destroys over 1,000 tons of Opium from #British traders at Humen 虎門 in Canton #廣東, #China, setting the spark to the First #OpiumWar #鴉片戰爭 1839–42. #ModernChina #虎門銷菸

#DOTD: Wang Guowei #王國維 (1877–1927). One of the most influential #classisicist scholars in #ModernChina, he drowned himself in Lake Kunming, which has been romanticised as a protest against #modernity and the death of traditional #ChineseCulture. #四大導師 #獨立之精神自由之思想

#DOTD: Soong Ching-ling #宋庆龄 (1893–1981). The 3rd wife of Sun Yat-sen #孫中山 (1866–1925), 1st President of the Republic of China #中華民國, she later was Vice-Chairperson/President and Honorary President of the People's Republic of China #中華人民共和國 名譽主席. #ModernChina

Transliterations of #European words by Fu Sinian (Fu Ssu-nien #傅斯年, 1896–1950):

新諾邏輯 Xīnnuòluójí = #Sinology
李奈桑斯 Lǐnàisāngsī = #Renaissance

#ModernChina #TranslingualPractice #歷史語言研究所工作之旨趣 #國文學史分期之研究
@ihptaiwan

#DOTD: Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀 (1879–1942, left-hand side), revolutionary, journalist, publicist, and, together with Li Dazhao 李大釗 (1889–1927, right-hand side), founder of the #Communist Party of #China #中國共產黨 in 1921. #CCP #CPC #ModernChina #ChineseHistory

#BOTD: 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).

#DOTD: Meng Xiaodong 孟小冬 (1908–77), #PekingOpera #京劇 actress in #ModernChina renown for her portrayal of male (sheng 生) roles.