Li Jianwu

Li Jianwu

Li Jianwu (August 17, 1906 - November 24, 1982), pseudonym Liu Xiwei. Modern famous writers, dramatists and translators. I like drama and literature since childhood. In 1930, he graduated from the Department of foreign languages, School of Arts, Tsinghua University. He went to Paris modern language school in 1931 and returned to China in 1933. He has been a professor of the school of Arts of national Jinan University, a researcher of Shanghai Kongde Institute, a professor of Shanghai Academy of drama, a researcher of the Institute of literature of Peking University and the Institute of foreign languages of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Member of the 4th China Federation of literary and art circles. He wrote a novel heart disease and so on. He has translated the works of Moliere, Tolstoy, Gorky, Turgenev, Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac and other famous scholars, and published research monographs. He once served as a member of the evaluation group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and honorary president of the French Literature Research Association.

Life of the characters

Li Jianwu is a Chinese writer, dramatist, literary critic, translator and expert in French literature. His father, Li Mingfeng, participated in the revolution of 1911 and was murdered by the Northern Warlords in 1919. Li Jianwu has been wandering with his mother since he was young. He has been studying in Beijing since he was 10 years old. In 1921, he joined the high school attached to national Beijing Normal University. The following year, he and his classmates Jian Xianai and Zhu Danan organized the literature group Xi she, founded the supplement of Guofeng daily, a literary journal, and began to publish novels and plays. He was admitted to Tsinghua University in 1925, first in the Department of Chinese, and then transferred to the Department of Western literature. In the same year, Wang Tongzhao introduced him to join the Literary Research Association. In 1931, he went to France to study Flaubert and other realistic writers and works. In 1933, he returned to China and worked in the Committee of China Education Foundation. He was a professor of Jinan University in 1935. During the Anti Japanese War, he engaged in progressive drama movement in Shanghai and was the backbone of Shanghai drama club and hard-working troupe. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, at the request of Zheng Zhenduo, he co edited the magazine Renaissance with Zheng Zhenduo, and participated in the preparation of the establishment of Shanghai Experimental Drama School (later renamed Shanghai Drama Academy) as the director of the Department of drama literature. Since 1954, he has been a researcher in the Institute of literature of Peking University, the Institute of literature of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of foreign literature. He has also served as a member of the appraisal group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the all China Federation of literary and art circles, a member of the Chinese society of foreign literature, a member of the Chinese Dramatist Association, an honorary president of the French Literature Research Association, and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

Drama creation

Profile of characters

Li Jianwu loved drama when he was a child. He took part in drama performance as a student and was once the president of Tsinghua drama club of Tsinghua University. In 1923, he began to publish the play before leaving, and created and adapted nearly 50 plays. His plays are permeated with patriotic and democratic ideas against imperialism and feudal warlords, and pay attention to reflecting the feelings of the working masses. With compact plot, rigorous layout, distinctive characters and vivid language, he is known as a playwright with romantic characteristics.

Creative experience

In the 1920s, nine plays were published, most of which were one act plays, reflecting the hardships of the lower class people's life in cities. The protagonists were workers, soldiers and servants. The focus of fate is often on women. Cui Zi's future (1926) and mother's dream (also known as gambling and war, 1927) are the representative plays of this stage.

The 1930s was a time when Li Jianwu was active in thought and diligent in artistic exploration. His plays had various themes and styles. Among them are "signal" (outside the line of fire, 1932) and "Lao Wang and his comrades" (inside the line of fire, 1932), which are full of worries about the fate of the country and cry out for resistance against Japan; there are "this is only spring" (1934), which reflect the revolutionary struggle, praise the revolutionaries, expose the feudal warlords and hope to the Communist Party, and "thirteen years" (an unregistered Comrade) There are two novels, village head's house (1933) and Liang Yunda (1934), which reflect the rural life and the struggle between good and evil of human nature with gloomy brushwork and shocking stories. They are characterized by Romanticism and the influence of French drama. There are also two novels which aim at the new and old Taoists and criticize the feudal morality and capitalist culture coexisting in China The comedies set an example (1936) and the new scholar (1937). Most of these works are multi act plays.

The 1940s was the golden age of Li Jianwu's plays, most of which were adapted from famous Chinese and foreign works. This is mainly due to the blockage of Shanghai's speech path after the Japanese occupation, and the difficulty of writing. In addition to Huanghua (1941), horse peddler (formerly known as Cao Mang, 1942) and youth (1944), more than 10 other plays were adapted from the script. The more famous ones are autumn (1942), Jin Xiaoyu (1944), Wang Deming and Ashina (above 1945).

After 1937, Gudao literature was famous for a time, and the drama movement of Gudao literature was also the most active, among which Li Jianwu's Cao mang was the representative of excellent plays.

Character evaluation

Li Jianwu's adaptation of the script only takes the basic idea of the original work, and transforms the background, plot and characters to make it completely sinicized. Since the late 1940s, Li Jianwu has devoted himself to teaching, research and translation, occasionally creating works. After 1976, some plays such as 1976 (1977) and LV Zhi (1979) were published, which expressed his anger at the ten-year turmoil and praised the new era.

Li Jianwu's plays are permeated with patriotic and democratic ideas against imperialism and warlords, and are intended to depict the human nature of different classes. They are characterized by rigorous layout, compact plot, fluent language and distinctive characters. Li Jianwu is known as a romantic playwright. Among them, this is just spring (1934), which is based on the northern expedition, reflects the revolutionary's struggle in Beijing occupied by the Northern Warlords and has a great influence. Li Jianwu's comedies are good at depicting vivid comedic characters, with fresh style, humor, sharp and pungent, but not losing the truth, and stretching freely without affectation. For example, youth (1944) won high praise for its anti feudal theme, vivid character and strong comic effect.

Writing characteristics

(1) The times is not strong, but it has high artistic value and its own special style.

(2) We should attach importance to the analysis of human nature, the revelation of inner conflicts, and the exploration of artistic skills and forms.

(3) The dialogue is witty, compact and interesting.

literature

novel

Li Jianwu's novels are based on the revolutionary struggle of his father's generation and the life of urban laborers. His main works include the mid length cloud of the West Mountain (1928), the long length heart disease (1931), and the short stories combined with mission (1938) and Tanzi (1931). The story of Zhongtiaoshan, a short story written in his early days, was selected by Lu Xun as the second volume of Chinese new literature. Lu Xun's comment on his short story the legend of Zhongtiao Mountain "is gorgeous, although today, ten years later, we can still see the body and soul hidden in the Chinese clothing woven with word of mouth" (preface to the second episode of the great series of Chinese New Literature), which shows one of the characteristics of Li Jianwu's novels.

comment

Since the mid-1930s, Li Jianwu has published literary reviews and drama reviews under the pseudonym of Liu Xiwei. Literature reviews include zuihua collection and zuihua II collection. Drama reviews, adapted and published after the founding of the people's Republic of China, include drama Xintian and selected drama reviews by Li Jianwu. His criticism is not to judge the quality of the works, but to cast in his own discovery of life and art, to draw on others, to develop association, and to have unique opinions.

Prose

Li Jianwu also wrote a lot of essays, including the collection of essays, such as travel notes to Italy, Mr. EBER (1942) and dream knife (1946), and the prose, climbing Mount Tai in the rain, was published in 1961. He was selected as a middle school Chinese textbook.

Li Jianwu wrote a lot of drama reviews in his life, such as thunderstorm, under the eaves of Shanghai, around Qingming, reading teahouse, etc. His penetrating analysis of dramas often has unique artistic views. His comments are included in "zuihua Ji" and "zuihua II Ji" respectively.

Translated works

Li Jianwu is one of the earliest scholars engaged in the study of foreign literature in China. Since 1925, he has published many translated works, including novels and plays, with different theories. The novels include Stendhal's collection of novels, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, emotional education and the temptation of St. Anton. The plays include the fight between love and death, the drama collections of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and the works of Balzac, Stendhal and muse. Among them, Moliere's 27 comedies are the most complete translation and Gorky's 7 plays, Chekhov's one act, Tolstoy's 7 plays and Turgenev's 4 plays. His translation stresses honesty and faithfulness, fluency, comprehensiveness, and appreciation of both refined and popular tastes.

As a French literary researcher, he has written many monographs and monographs, such as the review of Flaubert (1935), the study of Stendhal (1950), and the comedy of Moliere (1955).

Representative works

It's just spring

It's just spring is Li Jianwu's famous work. The play is set in the northern expedition, in which the revolutionary Feng Yunping is ordered to sneak from Wuhan into Beijing, where the Northern Warlords occupy, and live in the home of the police chief. He was the former lover of the director's wife and the revolutionary party that the director was ordered to arrest today. The arrival of Feng Yunping aroused the thoughts of the director's wife. When she did

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