| dc.description.abstract | With amazing writing talent, Eileen Zhang became famous in the literary arena in Shanghai in 1940. However, she was gradually neglected because of being thought as a traitor, and she left for USA after the PRC set up. She didn’t return the peak of the literary arena until Chih-Tsing Hsia recommended her in his book “A History of Modern Chinese Fiction”. The presentation of Zhang’s essay “Recall Hu Shih” in 1968 was even a surprise that Zhang and Hu had something in common in a view of Chinese literature, though we thought that they lived different lives. Hu Shih was the leader of the May Fourth Movement and also an important, influencing writer in the modern history of China. Although Zhang and Hu had different views of many things, this literary generation gap beyond 30 years had the same interests in the ordinary art style. Zhang said the May Fourth Movement would always affect Chinese literature as long as the existence of “the same memory among Chinese people”, and it also indirectly showed the relationship of Zhang and the May Fourth Movement. I think the reason why Zhang worshiped Hu is because Hu not only was a nice elder and a leader of Chinese literature at that time but also had the same thoughts as Zhang. Zhang started to read “The Collections of Hu Shih”, which was filled with many Hu’s views of the revolution of Chinese literature, the liberation of Chinese females and individualism, and we could find the relationship between those three mentioned above and her writings, her characteristics, and her decisions all her life.
To some degree, Zhang was one of Hu’s adherents in some aspects, and I plan to work on it with the culture values, politics, literature, and the norms of love and marriage. First, the living experiences and the civilization they had in their childhood developed their temperate views of traditional Chinese culture. Then, they stood different positions about politics, but they had the same disagreements on collectivism and communism, probably because of their agreements on individualism. Writing is the main association of Zhang and Hu, and in this research I will compare Zhang’s different writing features in all her writing periods with Hu’s claims of Chinese literature by analyzing their points of Rediology. At last, I would like to present how Zhang and Hu thought the main ideas of the May Fourth Movement- “love, always the superior” and “decisions on one’s own marriage for oneself” through the love-and-marriage patterns of the celebrities, including Zhang and Hu, of the May Fourth Movement, and the characters in Zhang’s writings. | en_US |