Ye Shengtao

Ye Shengtao

Ye Shengtao ( Chinese  葉聖陶  /  叶圣陶 , Pinyin Yè Shèngtáo ; born October 28, 1894 in Suzhou , Chinese Empire , † February 16, 1988 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) was a Chinese writer.

Life

Since Ye Shengtao failed the state civil servant examination, he first became a teacher in 1911 and from 1923 worked as an editor for the Commercial Press and a Shanghai book publisher. From 1919 Ye was a member of a literary society and from 1921 he was one of the founders of the "Literary Study Society". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he achieved high cultural-political functions and in 1954 became Deputy Minister of Education.

He practiced his literary activity mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. After the May Fourth Movement , Ye became relatively famous. His work consists largely of six volumes of short stories, but Ye has also written a novel , short stories for children and essays .

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Topics of his literary work came from the "Literary Study Society", which he let appear in his stories. These stories deal with the problems of the individual in China who have been affected by radical social changes and who suffered from loneliness and alienation. He also talked about other social problems such as the oppression of women and problems in the upbringing of students, pupils and teachers.

Ye Shegtao's stories document the political and social conditions and upheavals in the Chinese republic . He represents one of the most outstanding personalities of the new Chinese literature as well as the "Literary Study Society" and the "League of Left-Wing Writers". His storytelling techniques have been compared with those of Chekhov , and he created particularly realistic portraits of this milieu through his experience as a teacher.

Works

• «雪 朝» Xuězhāo (poems), 1922
• «稻草人» Dàocǎorén (novel), 1923
• «線 下» Xiànxià (short stories) 1925
• «倪 煥 之» Ní Huànzhī (Novel) 1929
• «古代 英雄 的 石像» Gǔdài Yīngxióng de Shíxiàng . (Fairy tale), 1931
• «文 心» Wénxīn (essay), 1934 (with Xia Mianzun 夏 丏 尊)
• «未 厭 居 習作» Wèiyànjū Xízuò (prose), 1935
• «聖 陶 短篇小說 集» Shèngtáo Duǎnpiān Xiǎoshuōjí (short stories), 1936
• «葉紹鈞 選集» Yè Shàojūn Xuǎnjí (Collection), 1936
• «略讀 指導 舉 隅» Luèdú Zhǐdǎo Jǔyù (prose) 1946, (with Zhu Ziqing朱自清)
• «兒童 文學 研究» Értóng Wénxué Yánjiū (prose), 1947
• «精讀 指導 舉 隅» Jīngdú Zhǐdǎo Jǔyù , 1948
• «寫作 雜談» Xiězuò Zátán , 1951
• «葉聖陶 童話 選» Yè Shèngtáo Tónghuàxuǎn (fairy tales), 1956
• «葉聖陶 出版 文集» Yè Shèngtáo Chūbǎn Wénjí (Collection), 1958
• «抗爭» Kàngzhēng (short stories), 1959
• «夜» Yè, 1959
• «平常 的 故事» Píngcháng de Gùshì , 1959
• «微波» Wēibō, 1959
• «篋 存 集》» Qiècúnjí (Poems), 1960
• «潘先生 在 難 中» Pān Xiānshēng Zài Nànzhōng (short stories), 1964
• «葉聖陶 散文» Yè Shèngtáo Sǎnwén (prose), 1983
• «我 與 四川» Wǒ yǔ Sìchuān (prose and poetry), 1984
• «文章 講話» Wénzhāng Jiǎnghuà (with Xia Mianzun 夏 丏 尊), 1997
• «文 話 七 十二 講» Wénhuà Qīshí'èr Jiǎng , 1999, (with Xia Mianzun 夏 丏 尊)

literature

• Volker Klöpsch, Eva Müller (Ed.): Lexicon of Chinese Literature. CH Beck, Munich 2004.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ye is the family name here, Shengtao is the first name.