{"id":7763,"date":"2019-10-02T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T06:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/famous-chinese-authoress\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T06:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T06:02:54","slug":"famous-chinese-authoress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/famous-chinese-authoress\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Chinese Authoress"},"content":{"rendered":"
This one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900′s. The essay writer also chro<\/em>nicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion.
This is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you’re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on.
You’ll see breif mention made of \u4e94\u56db\u8fd0\u52a8 w\u01d4 sì yùn dòng, the May 4th Movement, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.
Interesting Vocabulary
\u4e94\u56db\u8fd0\u52a8 – w\u01d4 sì yùn dòng – May 4th Movement
\u4e1c\u4eac – d\u014dng j\u012bng – Tokyo
\u7956\u56fd – z\u01d4 guó – Motherland
\u540e\u4ee3 – hòu dài – Later generations
\u5065\u5728 – jiàn zài – Alive, still with us
\u7231\u56fd- ài guó – Patriotic, love one’s country<\/p>\n

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Bing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.
BingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she’d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a Christian girl’s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous “Literature Research Conference”. In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the book “To Young Readers”.
In 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels “Segregation”, “Aunt”, etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the “People’s Daily” published her work “To Young Readers 2″. BingXin wasn’t o<\/em>nly a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.
In my third year of high school, I read her early poem “Spring Water”. It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin’s novels. My college thesis was “On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin’s Novels”. After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin’s house.
BingXin’s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.
BingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn’t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn’t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it’s because of frequent exercise.
Later, she answered a few of my questions a<\/em>bout literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, “Do you still write?” She said, “I want to! It’s just that my eyes aren’t so good, I can’t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.” When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, “Have you been abroad?” I said, “No.” She said to me, “Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who’ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.”
That day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking a<\/em>bout that one thing she’d said: “People who’ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.”
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