Su Xuelin

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Su Xuelin in Wuhan in 1933.

Su Xuelin or Su Hsüeh-lin ( Chinese  蘇雪林  /  苏雪林 , Pinyin Sū Xuělín , W.-G. Su Hsüeh-lin ; born February 24, 1897 in Rui'an , Zhejiang ; † April 21, 1999 in Tainan , Taiwan ) a Chinese writer and scholar .

youth

Su Xuelin was born in 1897 into an Anhui civil servant family. Her grandfather, Su Jinxin, was an officer in several counties in Zhejiang Province . Her mother's name was Tu, but she did not have an official family name and was instead nicknamed To-Ni. Su's father was a minor civil servant under the Qing Dynasty and then in the People's Republic of China. Su had three brothers and two sisters.

Education and career

Su studied first in Anhui and then in Beijing under the guidance of Hu Shih . During the May 4th Movement , she wrote her essay “Green Heavens” and her novel “Thorny Heart”, which received critical acclaim. She moved to France in 1922 and returned to China in 1925. She then taught at Soochow University in Suzhou and at Wuhan University .

Opponent of the contemporary writer Lu Xun, Su wrote to Cai Yuanpei to persuade him not to chair the committee that organized Lu's funeral after his death in 1936. This caused resentment among the left, who loudly scourged Su. When the Chinese Communist Party overthrew the republic in 1949, Su settled in Hong Kong and became an editor and translator for the Catholic Church there . Still, Su couldn't find a certificate for her research in Hong Kong, so after a year she moved to Europe and continued to work for the Catholic Church. After visiting Vatican City , she settled in France. She took courses at the Collège de France , where she was influenced by Édouard Paul Dhorme , Paul Demiéville and Georges Dumézil . However, she found French sinology irrelevant to her research and left the country after two years. At around the same time, she shifted her research focus to ancient texts, such as B. the works of Qu Yuan as well as Greek and Roman mythology .

In 1952, she became a professor at the Taiwan National Normal University and Cheng Kung National University . She retired in 1973 and became the first honorary professor at Cheng Kung National University. She died in 1999 at the age of 102. Her works, long concealed in mainland China, were published there after her death.

Personal life

Su converted to Roman Catholicism in 1924. In her autobiography Fu Sheng Jiu SI , she wrote that she was a descendant of Su Zhe , a renowned poet of the Song Dynasty .

literature

  • Jing M. Wang: When "I" was Born: Women's Autobiography in Modern China . In: Su Xuelin's Autobiographical Chapters . University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, ISBN 0-299-22510-0 , pp. 120-143 (English, google.fr [accessed December 9, 2019]).
  • Xiaomin Giafferri-Huang: Su Xuelin [Zhejiang 1897 - Tainan 1999] . In: Béatrice Didier , Antoinette Fouque and Mireille Calle-Gruber (eds.): Le dictionnaire universel des créatrices . Éditions des femmes, 2013, p. 4161-4162 (French).
  • Jacqueline Estran: Su Xuelin et la première vague d'étudiantes à l'IFCL: Cartographie d'un désir d'ailleurs . In: Transtext (e) s Transcultures 跨 文本 跨 文化 . September 2014, doi : 10.4000 / transtexts.517 (French, revues.org [accessed December 9, 2019]).
  • Jinhua Jia, Xiaofei Kang and Ping Yao: Gendering Chinese Religion: Subject, Identity, and Body . Suny Press, 2014, ISBN 1-4384-5307-8 , pp. 81–94 (English, google.fr ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, AD Stefanowska, Sue Wiles (Ed.): Biographical dictionary of Chinese women: the twentieth century, 1912-2000 . London, ISBN 0-7656-0798-0 , pp. 489-494 (English, google.com ).
  2. ↑ a b Estran, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Giafferri-Huang, 2013, pp. 4161-4162.
  4. ↑ a b Zhange Ni: The Thorny Paths of Su Xuelin. Harvard Divinity School , accessed February 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b A Study of Professor Su Xue-lin. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011 ; accessed on December 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Hui Shen: 论 苏雪林 与 五四 新 文学 ( Chinese ) Retrieved February 14, 2015.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Su is the family name here, Xuelin is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Su, Xuelin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 蘇雪林 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese writer and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rui'an , Zhejiang
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1999
Place of death Tainan , Taiwan