Christian Faith in Bing Xin’s Early Life: Tradition and Western Values in the Early 20th Century China
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| Title | Christian Faith in Bing Xin’s Early Life: Tradition and Western Values in the Early 20th Century China |
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| Abstract | AbstractAmong Chinese writers of the 20th century, Xie Wanying 谢婉莹 (1900–1999), known with her pen name Bing Xin 冰心, has been considered by literary critics as “the writer of love” and “the philosopher of love”. Nevertheless, this label seems to have ignored an element that could let us identify important conflicts within her works, that can be attributed to her contacts and relations with people and institutions linked to the Christian faith. Therefore, in the first period of Bing Xin’s literary production (1920–1930), this peculiar aspect of Western culture, the Christian belief, seems to be for her the expression of a definitely alternative and unconventional way to achieve truth in the early 20th century China.Keywords: Bing Xin 冰心, Western culture, Christian religion, tradition, poetryIzvlečekXie Wanying 谢婉莹 (1900–1999), kitajsko književnico 20. stoletja, ki je znana pod psevdonimom Bing Xin 冰心, so literarni kritiki označevali kot »pesnico ljubezni« in »filozofinjo ljubezni«. Vendar ta oznaka ni upoštevala elementa, ki nam lahko omogoči vpogled v pomembne konflikte, vsebovane v njenih delih, in ki je povezan z njenimi odnosi z ljudmi in institucijami krščanske cerkve. V zgodnjem obdobju njenega literarnega ustvarjanja (1920–1930) je ta značilni vidik zahodne kulture, namreč krščanska vera, zanjo očitno predstavljal izraz nedvomno alternativnega in nekonvencionalnega iskanja resnice na Kitajskem v začetku 20. stoletja.Ključne besede: Bing Xin 冰心, zahodna kultura, krščanska vera, tradicija, poezija |
| Publisher | Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana/Znanstvena založba FF |
| Date | 2012-09-25 |
| Source | Azijske in afriške študije Vol 16, No 2 (2012): 100 Years of Modern China: Social, Political and Cultural Changes |