Glossary 6

Question 0

Peking University

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Center of New Culture Movement

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New Culture Movement (1915)

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Goal to build new Chinese culture and language

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New Youth (La jeunese)

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1916/17

Chen Duxiu

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Chen Duxiu

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1879-1942
New Youth
1921 confounded the Chinese Communist party

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Modern Chinese

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The national language

Putonghua

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May Fourth Movement 1919

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In protest of WWII and Treaty of Versailles (1919) had ceded Shandong peninsula and Qingdao from German to Japan

Question 6

Lu Xun

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1881-1936
Aka Zhou Shuren
"A Call to Arms"
"Diary of a Madman"
Father of modern Chinese literature and invented putonghua

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What Happens When Nora Leaves Home?

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Nora was the heroine in Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

Huaju - a social problem play, agent for spreading message to mass

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Realism

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Portrays characters in what we perceive as real history/time.
Allows you to see inside minds.
Patterns of meaning we might not see otherwise.
Verisimilitude

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Transitive verb

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Takes a direct object

I.e. I run the company.

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Intransitive verb

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Indirect object

i.e. I run.

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Allegory

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A symbolical narrative, parable

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Mise-en-abyme

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Put in an inescapable scene, recursive.

Can’t escape from the Madman story

Question 13

Unreliable narrator

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Diary of a Madman.

Who is he to prescribe a solution? Is he one of them?