Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature 33 presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature. | 292 ZONG PU PEN NAME OF FENG ZONGPU and Chinese philosophies. His theory that the core of Chinese aesthetics rests on the unification of opposite entities solidity-emptiness and finite-infinite paradigms espoused in Taoism and Buddhism has a far-reaching influence in the world of Chinese academia and arts. His scholarly works include Yi jing The Realm of Arts and Kangde yanjiu A Study of Kant . Zong was also a noted essayist. His best-known works are Meixue de sanbu The Aesthetic Promenade a collection of lyrical essays on aesthetics and the letters included in San ye ji Three Leaves Correspondences of Tian Han Zong Baihua and Guo Moruo . Zong displayed an interest in vernacular poetry as early as the late 1910s when he was a student at Tongji University in Shanghai where he joined the Chinese Youth Association and edited its magazine Shaonian Zhongguo Chinese Youth . While studying in Germany Zong began to write poetry encouraged by Dessoir s emphasis on the aesthetic experience in nature and art. Most of the poems collected in Liu yun xiao shi Floating Clouds Short Poems a book that attracted much attention in the 1920s and 1930s were written during his sojourn in Germany. Although he was not nearly as prolific in his creative work as in his philosophical writings he continued to write poetry after his return to China. His poems express his love of nature and the instantaneous perception of the beauty of the eternal universe through small joys in everyday life. Zong embraces Zen Buddhism in its celebration of the moment and the discovery of the philosophical and literary in the mundane. See also GUO MORUO NEW CULTURE MOVEMENT TIAN HAN. ZONG PU PEN NAME OF FENG ZONGPU 1928- . Fiction writer and essayist. Born in Beijing Zong Pu grew up in an academic environment moving from one university campus to another with her family which was headed by her famous father the renowned philosopher Feng Youlan 1895-1990 . Although she published stories in the 1940s and 1950s it
