Author: Wu Mi
introduce ...
Mr. Wu Mi is a pioneer, founder and famous scholar of comparative literature in China. This book is a handout written by him after more than ten years of painstaking efforts, and it first appeared after 50 years of oblivion. The book is written in Chinese, English, French, Latin and other languages, which represents the core and spirit of the author's philosophy and literary thought. The author is knowledgeable, integrates the wisdom of philosophers and artists at home and abroad, and makes a unique and novel explanation of the meaning of life, the morality of literati, the essence of literature and the law of artistic creation. These expositions are of great enlightening significance to the construction of literary theory with China characteristics and how to improve the character of literati under the impact of modern economic tide. Attached to the back of this book are explanatory papers written by Mr. Wu Mi's disciples Zhou Fucheng, Li Funing and Wang Minyuan. Mr. Qian Zhongshu wrote the title of the cover for his teacher.
Wu Mi (1894- 1978), a native of Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, 1894 (20th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty). Jade monk, a pen name for the rest of his life, is a famous western writer, a professor at the College of Literature of National Southeast University (1926-1928)1941elected as a professor at the Ministry of Education.
personal record
Wu Mi, 23, went to study in America. In his early years, he lost his job in Tsinghua and studied at Harvard. He, Chen Yinque and Tang Yongtong are also called "the Three Masters of Harvard". I studied journalism, 19 18 changed to western literature. During his ten years in the United States, Wu Mi has made great efforts in studying English literature in the19th century, especially the works of romantic poets, and has many works.
Wu Mi returned to China from 65438 to 0926, and was employed as a professor in the College of Literature of National Southeast University, teaching courses such as the history of world literature, and often comparing with the four traditions of Greek and Roman culture, Christian culture, Indian Buddhist collation and China Confucianism. Xue Heng magazine was co-founded by Wu Mi, Mei Guangdi and Liu Yizhiyu in Southeast University 1922, with a total of 79 issues published 1 1 year. It treats the old and new cultures in a unique way, and has won the theories of Western Europe and North America. It never failed to absorb the old, so it protested in court and did not become a faction. During this period, he wrote China's new and old essays on the topic of the New Culture Movement, adopted classicism, attacked new-style free poems, advocated maintaining the proper value of China's heritage, and tried to take Babbitt of China as his own responsibility. He is the author of Wu Mi's Poems, Poems of Kong Xuan and other monographs.
After Wu Mi left Dongda University, he became a professor of Foreign Languages Department of Northeastern University and Tsinghua University successively. 1929 In September, Qian Zhongshu was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University, where his father Qian Jibo once taught. He became Wu Mi's favorite student, and there were often poems between teachers and students. However, in June 1937, due to a book review by Qian Zhongshu, the relationship between teachers and students was tense for many years.
Wu Mi was hired by the Ministry of Education as 194 1 the first batch of professors. 1943- 1944 Wu Mi was the director of the Foreign Languages Department of National Southwest United University,/kloc-0 taught in yenching university, Chengdu in the autumn of 1944, 1945 became a professor of the Foreign Languages Department of Sichuan University, and 1946 was rejected by Zhejiang University and Henan University in February. From 65438 to 0949, Chen, president of Guangzhou Lingnan University, invited him to go south to be the dean of the College of Literature, and his good friend Chen Yinque was also in Lingnan. Minister of Education Hang invited him to be the head of literature department of Taiwan Province Provincial University, and his daughter invited him to Tsinghua University. At the end of April, he flew to Chongqing, where he became a foreign language professor at Xianghui Academy, and a literature professor at Mianren Academy in Beibei hosted by Liang Shuming, and settled in Sichuan. 1950 in April, the two houses were abolished one after another. Wu Mi went to the newly established Sichuan Institute of Education and merged into the History Department of Southwest Normal University in September (and later taught in the Chinese Department). As a result, the tiger fell in Pingyang and the scenery was very bad at night.
By the arrival of the Cultural Revolution, Wu Mi had become a great sinner criticized by Southwest Normal University. He was put in the bullpen on various charges and went to Pingliang for labor reform, and suffered a lot. The 76-year-old man could not do heavy work and was put on a high platform for public display. He was dizzy and trembling, so he was pushed down and broke his left leg. After that, he was tortured by water and food. If the leg injury is slightly better, clean the toilet.
197 1 year, he was seriously ill, with blindness in his right eye and severe cataract in his left eye, and had to go back to Chongqing for illness. 1977, Wu Mi couldn't take care of herself at all, so she had to let her twin sister Wu take her back to her hometown in Shaanxi. Finally, she got some affectionate care and warmth from her brothers and sisters and died at the age of 84 on 1978+05438+07. 198 1 year 1 month 65438+7, Wu Mi's ashes were sent to Anwubao and buried under the rugged mountain covered with snow.