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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Qian Zhongshu
		Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition.
		Qian's fame rose to its height when the novel was adapted into a TV serial in 1990.
		Qian's command of the cultural traditions of classical and modern Chinese, ancient Greek (in translations), Latin, English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish allowed him to construct a towering structure of polyglot and cross-cultural allusions.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Qian_Zhongshu (1801 words)

	Qian Zhongshu -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) Chinese (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) writer and scholar.
		Qian Zhongshu was one of the most well-known Chinese authors to the Western world.
		Qian's wife, Yang Jiang, was also a writer and translator, best known for her translation of (The hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical) Don Quixote into Chinese.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qi/qian_zhongshu.htm (1194 words)

	Qian Zhongshu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese writer and scholar.
		Despite failing in Mathematics, Qian was accepted into the Department of Foreign Languages under Tsinghua University in 1929 because of his excellent performance in Chinese and English languages.
		Qian was relieved of teaching and worked entirely in the Institute of Literary Studies under PKU, where his job was actually translating Mao Zedong's collected works into English.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Q/Qian-Zhongshu.htm (904 words)

	A family Besieged Now Beloved
		Her husband, Qian Zhongshu (1910-98), was one of the 20th century's greatest Chinese scholars and an authority in Chinese classical history, philosophy and literature, as well as in comparative culture and literature.
		Their daughter, Qian Yuan (1937-97), was a professor of English with Beijing Normal University, and was in charge of evaluating the teaching of English in all teachers' colleges in China for the then State Education Commission.
		In the dream, Qian, weak and emaciated, is hospitalized in a boat, attended by strangers.
	www.china.org.cn /english/Life/80197.htm (1264 words)

	QIANLONG.COM--Beijing Portal--Yang Jiang and "We Three" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her husband, Qian Zhongshu, who made his name with the novel Besieged City, was also an influential and established scholar in literary research before his death.
		And it was to fulfill the last wish of their cherished daughter, Qian Yuan, who died of cancer in 1997, one year before her father, that Yangjiang wrote this book.
		For many readers, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang will be remembered as a couple representing the best of modern Chinese literature, but their daughter, Qian Yuan, was known by far fewer.
	english.qianlong.com /7838/2004/09/07/1380@2263914.htm (1236 words)

	ipedia.com: Qian Zhongshu Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese writer and scholar, born in Wuxi.
		Graduating from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1933, Qian conti...
		Qian Zhongshu (钱钟书; Pinyin: Qián Zhōngshū, WG: Ch'ien Chung-shu) (1910 - December 19, 1998) was a Chinese writer and scholar, born in Wuxi.
	www.ipedia.com /qian_zhongshu.html (265 words)

	Sima Qian - Chinese Literature - Chinese Art
		Sima Qian司馬遷 (circa 145 BC145andmdash;90 BC) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史令) of the Han Dynasty and an astrologer.
		As a senior imperial official, Sima Qian was also in the position to offer counsel to the emperor on general affairs of the state.
		Sima Qian was also good at illustrating the response of the character by placing him in a sharp confrontation and letting his words and deeds speak for him.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Sima_Qian (2198 words)

	Former House of Famous Writer Opens to Public
		The 100-year-old house is located in the quiet old town of Wuxi in east China's Jiangsu Province, where Qian Zhongshu and several other renowned scholars in his family were born and brought up.
		Qian Zhongshu lived in this house till he went to college.
		Qian was also respected by scholars for his literary critiques.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/46356.htm (273 words)

	Limited Views Essays on Ideas and Letters Harvard Yenching Institute Monograph Series by Qian Zhongshu, Chung-Shu ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Qian has an unusually original mind; his contributions to the understanding of Chinese Classics seem still not truly acknowledged.
		For those who lament the death of philology in the modern American university, Qian proves that, at least in its Chinese form, philological studies is still firmly at the centre of the humanities and liberal arts.
		Qian's extraordinary command of the languages and literatures of six or seven literary traditions should leave modern cross-cultural studies in tears of shame.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Limited-Views-Essays-on-Ideas-and-Letters-Harvard-Yenching-Institute-Monograph-Series-0674534115.htm (750 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: Besieged Fortress - Part 2
		Qian's extraordinary command of the languages and literatures of six or seven literary traditions should leave modern cross-cultural studies in tears of shame.
		In the mid-70s when the book was written they were "exiled" from their former residence, and, for more than three years, lived first in [their daughter] Ah Yuan's dorm in the university where she worked, then in an office which belonged to the institute to which they were attached.
		Furthermore, the limitation is that Qian is the sum total of everything that he has read and then filed away inside his head.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20040206_3.htm (978 words)

	Newsletter Issue 14
		According to Qian, in 1864-5, Fang Junshi was working under Dong Xun, and Dong Xun was serving as an official at the Zongli Yamen (the Office for the Overall Management of Foreign Affairs).
		Qian's argument, then there is an English poem that was actually translated even earlier than Longfellow's work, and earlier not just by one or two years, but by a full decade.
		Qian known this, he would perhaps have dispensed with the final section of his article, in which he elaborates at some length his sense of regret.
	www.cityu.edu.hk /ccs/Newsletter/newsletter14/Contribution1.htm (963 words)

	Books \| Great leap forward
		Qian himself rapidly became dissatisfied with his work and it's impossible to resist wistfully imagining what he might have achieved if Mao had never come to power.
		For example, Qian Zhongshu could be termed a scurrilously Chinese Evelyn Waugh; Shen Congwen a Hunanese Turgenev, awash with ambivalent nostalgia for his war-wracked southern homeland; Zhang Ailing a bleakly claustrophobic Katherine Mansfield, for her intricately oppressive stories of Shanghai domesticity.
		Written by Qian Zhongshu's wife, a wryly sensitive account of two years labouring in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5212214-99930,00.html (1915 words)

	Zhong Guo Cina, Associazione Italia-Cina
		Qian Zhongshu died at the end of December 1998.
		Qian Zhongshu was not a pure philologist or linguist: he used languages to roam at bis ease through most of western literature and philosophic thought.
		Years back, in a short review of his Guanzhui bian, I pointed out that be cited some seventy or so Italian authors, from the stil novo poets of the 14th century up to the contemporary writers.
	www.italiacina.org /cultura/letteratura/qianzhongshu.htm (542 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fortress Besieged: Books: Qian Zhongshu,Jonathan D. Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Zhongshu traces his first several years back in China through a couple of unrequited romantic dalliances amongst the Shanghainese elite, a doomed teaching post at a mediocre inland university, and the eventual collapse of an ill-advised marriage.
		Zhongshu mixes elegant prose, penetrative psychology and fantastically funny characterisation to create a book that feels significantly bigger than its 400-odd pages.
		Zhongshu's own formidable education in East and West shines through in his beautifully woven tapestry of reference - literary, artistic, social and historical - which spans Asia, Europe and America with ease.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fortress-Besieged-Qian-Zhongshu/dp/0713998350 (757 words)

	Qian Zhongshu -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Qian attended missionary schools in Suzhou and Wuxi while receiving English and classical Chinese training under the tutelage of his father.
		More results on "Qian Zhongshu" when you join.
		The first-place winner was Lu Xun for his Nahan (“Call to Arms”); it was followed in order by Shen Congwen for Bian cheng (“Remote Town”), Lao She for Luotuo xiangzi (“The Camel”), Zhang Ailing for Chuanqi (“Legend”), Qian...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9099032 (340 words)

	Imaginaries of the Foreign
		Qian Zhongshu quotes the example from Aristophanes and compares it with many similar expressions in Chinese texts.
		As Qian Zhongshu points out, ancient Chinese lexicographers all explain the word "to translate" (譯) as "to convey the language of all the barbarians and that of birds."
		Qian Zhongshu錢鍾書, “漢譯第一首英語詩《人生頌》及有關二三事” [A Psalm of Life: the First Poem Translated from English into Chinese and Some Related Matters], 《七綴集》 [A Collection of Seven Essays] (Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 1985), p.
	www.cityu.edu.hk /ccs/Newsletter/newsletter2/Imaginaries.htm (1575 words)

	Chinese Culture
		Her husband, Qian Zhongshu, is also an influential scholar, who is well known for his novel the ‘Besieged City’.
		For many readers, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang are known as a couple that represents the great achievements of modern Chinese literature.
		Their daughter, Qian Yuan, was less well known.
	en1.chinabroadcast.cn /1857/2004-8-26/121@146186.htm (544 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: Besieged Fortress - Part 3
		In Part 2, I attempted a brief assessment of the accomplishments of Qian Zhongshu.
		Qian must have surely shocked and awed so many people with his photographic memory of so many texts in different languages.
		If the goal is narrowly defined as being someone like Qian Zhongshu, versed in multiple languages and writing learned books, there is every reason to believe that this generation should be able to produce someone like that.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20040208_1.htm (1195 words)

	QIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Search the QIAN Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the QIAN Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named QIAN at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/Q/QIAN.htm (73 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: Besieged Fortress - Part 1
		More people go to foreign universities or educational institutes through education agents, but they do not finish their studies or their thesis, so their study results can't be proved by formal report cards.
		Qian was a few years older than my father.
		Alas, this theory is totally wrong when applied to Qian's case, as his major works (set aside from "Besieged Fortress") would be mostly incomprehensible to his contemporaries (note: I will explain in a follow-up post).
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20040206_2.htm (1472 words)

	Fortress Besieged -- Zhongshu Qian Jeanne Kelly Nathan K Mao
		This excellent new translation reminds American readers of the sheer enjoyment to be found in Qian’s sly, intricately crafted, and occasionally sobering masterpiece.
		Qian unleashes his biting satire on the academic setting and Feng’s fellow professors, while also critiquing China’s excessive adaptation of Western literary traditions.
		Yet, Qian’s voice is very much his own and his portrait of China in the 1930s, and the incomparable Fang are what make this novel so distinctive, extraordinary, and enjoyable.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0811215520 (492 words)

	Qian, Zhongshu
		A native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, Qian studied foreign languages at Qinghua University.
		In 1935, he went to Oxford, and in 1937 went on to study French literature at the University of Paris.
		The author of Guanzhui bian (Limited Essays on Ideas and Letters), the author of a single great novel such as Wei cheng (Fortress Besieged) is no longer with us.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/jungchiu/QianZS.html (665 words)

	Sima Qian Temple, Xian Attractions, China Travel Information
		It is the most popular sight in Hancheng with the to the east, Mt. Liang to the west, the ancient Yellow River to the east, Mt. Liang to the west, the ancient Great Wall of Wei State to the south, and the River Zhi to the north.
		Sima Qian (145 - 90 BC), the famous historian and litterateur of China, is a native of Hancheng.
		Sima Qian's tomb stands at the back of the temple and is built with bricks and engraved with the Eight Diagrams and flower designs on the walls of the grave.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shaanxi/xian/hancheng/simaqian.htm (520 words)

	Qian Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		The hero of this satirical novel, Fang Hung-chien, is educated in America, and, on his way home to Shanghai to become a teacher, he meets two beautiful women who change his life.
		Qian Zhongshu's novel is a classic of Chinese literature.
		What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the Modernists they became.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Qian (1149 words)

	Asian Review of Books
		And, again perhaps due to the tranlsation, Qian would appear to have been something of a misogynist: the female characters are almost universally unsympathetically drawn, shallow, scheming and erratic: the apparently sensible young woman Fang marries turns into a harridan within weeks of snaring him.
		Qian's female characters, alternately simpering, haughty, cunning and throwing tantrums are a type that would not be unfamiliar to watchers of Cantonese television.
		There are a number of piquant asides, for example: "Despite their poor command of English, the students had impressive foreign names...
	www.asianreviewofbooks.com /arb/article.php?article=534 (530 words)

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		Her husband, Qian Zhongshu, is also an influential scholar, who is well known for his novel the ‘Besieged City’.
		The book records their over 60 years’ family life, which was, from time to time, struck by poverty, political oppression and even vilification from some green-eyed people.
		For many readers, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang are known as a couple that represents the great achievements of modern Chinese literature.
	www.enread.com /story/biography/20079.html (560 words)

	Eastern Asia, Africa and Oceania Lang. And Lit. - What's Been Published - Alphabetically by Title Beginning: Q
		Qian gu wen ren xia ke meng : Wu xia xiao shuo lei xing yan jiu
		Qian Jibo zhu ; Cao Yuying xuan bian.
		Qian Daxin zhuan ; Lü Youren biao jiao.
	www.pitbossannie.com /ti-pl-q.html (463 words)

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