Take Zhang Ailing as method ｜ Shenzhen -Hong Kong Book Review · Xiangdao Fanhua

In 1939, Zhang Ailing, under the age of 19, entered the University of Hong Kong. Two and a half years later, he experienced the battle and occupation of Hong Kong. With Hong Kong experience "personal and violent influence", she returned to Shanghai to start writing, and she became a hot new female writer with a series of "Hong Kong Legend". "Starting Hong Kong" focuses on the origin of Zhang Ailing and Hong Kong, with file data as a proof, restores vague historical images, and clarifies the humanistic experience of a period of war.

Zhang Ailing runs through the life of the world -seeking scene from the basic human education of the college era. The clear or strong visual impression on the mountains of Hong Kong Island, dense reading experience under artillery, the flow of multi -language and multi -cultural reference, the complexity of colonial modernity, and the long drifting career of the re -departure from Hong Kong after the war. In the genes of her writing life. Zhang Ailing's Hong Kong experience point directly to the clear and softness of her heart, and there is also a kind of sharpness and coolness, which constitutes the most shocking soul in her text.

What made Zhang Ailing the legend? What makes her the learning "Zhang Xue" of later generations? What impact did Zhang Ailing have this experience in Hong Kong? Faced with this series of question marks, Jin Minhua, a senior media person who currently lives in Hong Kong, interviewed Huang Xincun, the author of "Starting Hong Kong" and a professor at the School of Arts of the University of Hong Kong. Discover a "refreshing" Zhang Ailing. No wonder Wang Dewey, a lecturer of the Department of East Asia and the Department of Literature of Harvard University, praised the book "The Origin of Hong Kong" "provided the most important breakthrough for 'Zhang Xue' and Hong Kong studies."

Take Zhang Ailing as a method

Huangxin Village's new book "Origining Hong Kong" brings an important breakthrough in "Zhang Xue" research

■ Jin Minhua

Call of Destiny

Huang Xincun, a professor of comparison literature at the School of Literature of the University of Hong Kong, called this new book that was "not written" as "the work given me to me."

He has long taught at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and has been a professor of East Asian Language and Culture and director of the East Asian Research Center. He left the North American academic community and moved to Hong Kong five years ago.

"After transferring to Hong Kong, it was actually taught at Zhang Ailing's alma mater Hong Kong University of Arts. Two years ago, Zhang Ailing was born in the century. I think what I have to do in this position." Huang Xincun first was online in September 2020 online. The "Zhang Ailing's Centennial Birthday Commemorative Literature Exhibition" was launched. For part of the other content, I want to do further research, and I started to write a series of articles. As soon as it was out of control, the results of the two years were this book "Hong Kong."

"Hong Kong: Zhang Ailing's Alien and World"

Huang Xincun

Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

July 2022

"'Fate Hong Kong' means that Zhang Ailing's source is Hong Kong." Huang Xincun explained: "If she did not study in Hong Kong University, it would also be a writer, but it would be a very different writer; The experience of this experience in Hong Kong is particularly critical. No one said before that it was because these materials were not discovered earlier. It is said that there is a complete Zhang Ailing file for you. There is no such thing, you need to discover and return it. "

Of course, the war fire destroyed a lot of things, and many documents were discarded after the war campus reconstruction, but fortunately, Zhang Ailing's transcripts and student records were left. Huang Xincun, with the nineteen -year -old Zhang Ailing, wearing a very thick lens glasses, found her from the collective photo of the teachers and students of the Hong Kong University of Literature in 1940 and 1941. For many years, no one was looking for Zhang Ailing in it, but I found it. I was particularly happy and made all kinds of determination ... You see the same glasses. "

▲ Zhang Ailing

Continue to dig it, she finds more information about Zhang Ailing: Zhang Ailing's scholarship records obtained by the second grade of college, the text and video records of the Hong Kong girls' dormitory where Zhang Ailing lives, Photos and archives, the precious manuscripts of Xu Dishan professor Xu Dishan, friends Yan Ying and his family members studying in Hong Kong University ... "In 2020, this campus is dead and quiet. One page of information seems to be talking to me, saying that this can be done or doing, I feel that no one does it for so many years, it must be waiting for me, I feel a call of fate. "

▲ Zhang Ailing Harbor University Registration Form. Collection of Archives at the University of Hong Kong

"Emo Record" is the source of this book writing

In August 1939, Zhang Ailing, who graduated from Shanghai Santa Maria Girls' School, was unable to go to the University of London because of the European war. Before the start of school, he transferred to the University of Hong Kong University of Arts. Four months after the year, the Hong Kong war broke out and Hong Kong fell. The five -month -old experience of the war brought her "personal, severe influence" ("Embaru"). In May 1942, she returned to Shanghai and became famous with the posture of a new female writer.

▲ Teachers and Students Association of the University of Literature of Hong Kong. In the fall of 1941, Zhang Ailing was located in the third row. Collection of Archives at the University of Hong Kong

"Zhang Ailing was alarming in Shanghai. It always felt a miracle. In fact, there was a historical reason behind it. Why did she become famous on this festival? What is her writing positioning, why is she so positioned? What kind of literary reference department does she have? What kind of pavement did she make for her to stand out in the future? All these questions are related to her experience in Hong Kong, otherwise it is impossible to explain why she became famous all night after returning to Shanghai. "Huang Xincun emphasized that Zhang Ailing in Hong Kong Institute in Hong Kong The humanistic literacy stored, "it is her writing gene library, and this gene library was established in Hong Kong; face -to -face war is a milestone event for her life. Back to the falling Shanghai, she does not need to face the falling Shanghai. Life and death, there is no bloody reality there. The kind of endangered war experience encountered in Hong Kong has a particularly great impact on her and is a life experience that can not get rid of her life. Having grasping the moment in front of her is an opportunity to become famous. For her name is to resort all the experiences to her, and to quickly resort to the text, so that the sense of urgency is because of these two in Hong Kong. The experience of years and less than three years. "

Huang Xincun looked at Zhang Ailing's work for the first time, "It was seen in the" Legend "of the Shanghai Bookstore's photo in 1985. At the beginning, I was beaten. Why are there anyone who wrote it like this?" Where do you think such a person comes from? "After graduating from undergraduate, she continued to study graduate students in modern literature in the Department of Chinese Department of Peking University, and then went to study in the United States.

▲ Zhang Ailing's "Legend" adds this cover, Shanghai Shanhe Book Company 1946 edition, Huangxin Village Tibet

"My doctoral dissertation is about Zhang Ailing during the falling period of Shanghai in the 1940s. At that time, Mr. Li Oufan just opened a study class of Zhang Ailing. There were many people in the classroom -more than a dozen graduate lessons were a big course, many It is a big brother who is older than me, such as Xu Zidong, as well as Chen Jianhua and Meng Yue in the class, they have already started research on Zhang Ailing. Later, they learned that in fact, Zhang Ailing was not far from us. She lived in (Los Angeles) Ximu District. "Huang Xincun started Zhang Ailing's research during UCLA (University of California Los Angeles).

After writing the paper, the monograph published, Huang Xincun felt that he could not do Zhang Ailing, "just say goodbye, and do other topics." She acknowledged that although I haven't studied again for many years, "everyone still uses researcher Zhang Ailing as my first label", "I used to think that the works in Shanghai were the best works of Zhang Ailing, and these materials were not out at that time. Later, I found out that leaving left. After Shanghai, she was a very different writer. Her post -writing was very important, so she no longer said that. Now I think her late work "Little Reunion" is really a masterpiece. "The Dream of Red Mansions" is also a late masterpiece. "

In the "right time and right place", Huang Xincun picked up Zhang Ailing's research. And because of the "unearthed" of the new data, I returned to Zhang Ailing's classic text, "I also answered many questions about Zhang Ailing for a long time."

In the middle, "Ember Yu Lu" was regarded as a prose of "very, very important" by her. "" Ember Yu Lu "is an index (index) I wrote this book. It is like a source. , 'Fate Hong Kong' makes sense. Although there are only seven thousand words, it is very rich. You can open it in each paragraph. It is like a window one by one. It turned out to be so rich in it. For example, she wrote her historical teacher Franz, I went to Cha Franz, and then opened a window, another (new) world; she wrote that she was in the war. I went to the streets of Hong Kong, and eating ice cream was all ice dregs. How did she write it, and the "wow 'has opened a window. It is a prompt, a subgsstion, tell me what direction I want to continue digging data from the direction. There are no words "Zhang Ailing" on these data, but they have something to do with her. Taking these are all of them, you have a relatively complete picture. "

Not the purpose is the starting point

Huang Xincun believes that although "Origining Hong Kong" is about Zhang Ailing, Zhang Ailing is not a purpose. "I feel more and more starting with Zhang Ailing, that is, from her, she provides a road. She said that you want to go like this , Then give you an angle, a position, a method, you can dig to that place. "

In the book, she used more than 30,000 words to describe the influence of Stella Benson on Zhang Ailing, "the longest writing chapter", Li Oufan also referred to this part of the content "the most exciting chapter of the book" The most exciting chapter of the book "One", pushing is the "Zhang Xue" field in the field of "Zhang Xue". "Before, Mr. Li Oufan said that Steella Bensen was a very critical character. In 1944, Zhang Ailing said at the female writer's gathering. I am more happy among foreign female writers. Everyone is quoting this sentence, but no one can say who is Qing Bensen? What did you write? What does it have to do with Zhang Ailing? "No one has done this study for so many years, because Bensen in British literature in British literature History is a forgotten character, and her work has not been reprinted after the 1930s and 1940s.

▲ In 1920, Bensen took a group photo with students while teaching at Hong Kong Diocesan Men's Academy.

"There are actually a lot of her works." Huang Xincun spent more than half a year to read it. "Not only does it read her work, but also put her on the historical background of British literature to sort out. Looking at it, why Zhang Ailing did not have Those contemporary writers who are more famous than her, such as Virginia Woolf, have to choose one that no one knows (writer) says her favorite? Do these all, it takes a lot to spend a lot of money, it takes a lot to spend a lot of money, and it takes a lot to spend a lot. Kung Fu, there is no shortcut. "Huang Xincun's explanation was." She couldn't stand others and discharged her superficially with a certain Western writer. For example, we often see someone saying that Zhang Ailing is good at psychological analysis. Analysis, many people want to say that she is Chinese Woolf, which is what she hates most. She cannot read Woolf, who is intoxicated and determined to become a writer, and she is determined to become famous in English in English. For young women, it was impossible to read Woolf that year, but she didn't mention it and refused to mention it. she."

Outside of the nameless Bensen, there is Professor Xu Dishan, a Chinese teacher of Zhang Ailing- "This person is definitely a master." Huang Xincun said, but we know too little about him. I dare not imagine how rich and uniquely. He teaches not only the history of literature, but also the history of religious, cultural, visual culture, and all kinds of history. The vision of vision is to present Chinese culture with an interdisclinary integration, cross -disciplinary vision. "Li Oufan believes that Huang Xincun wrote this chapter and brought the colorful academic research of Xu Di Shan into Zhang Ailing's framework with great efforts to bring great efforts to Zhang Ailing's framework. Essence "The Chinese Department of the University of Hong Kong has really been on the track since Xu Dishan has served as the director of the department." He even hung up, Xu Dishan met with old friends with Chen Yinque, "What are they talking about? The colleagues of the University of Hong Kong did not take a long time. In 1941, Xu Di was in trouble, and suddenly died. Chen Yinque attended his memorial service. "

As for the unknown historical lecturer Franz. Li Oufan's statement made people can't help but sigh: "Franshi did not leave a book in his life. Fortunately, Zhang Ailing, a student of Hong Kong University, mentioned him. The author who commemorates him is Huangxin Village. "He was curious," The teachers and students of the Chinese Department of Hong Kong, and Francis appeared, and sat next to Chen Yinque.

▲ Huangxin Village has verified Zhang Ailing's dormitory of Hong Kong girls who lived in the past. This is the appearance of the building before becoming a girl's dormitory. Photographed in the 1930s. Alec Cooper's private collection.

Back to Huang Xincun's view of "Zhang Ailing is the starting point", "Although Zhang Ailing is written, at the same time, it is excavated by those who have been forgotten in history or have not received enough attention. In addition, Hong Kong is very An important part of history. "Including the history of the University of Hong Kong in the 1930s," we know too little about the history. The fall of Hong Kong was in December 1941. In the year, its deep humanistic tradition was established at that time. Zhang Ailing was lucky. She was studying here in 1939. It was an unprecedented and enlightened time at the University of Hong Kong. The teacher was the best teacher. Unfortunately, I did n’t finish it. The war broke out in 1941, but it ’s unfortunately a pity. This gave her experience of facing the war. You will not expect that there will be such a stimulus. After Shanghai, it became another person overnight, and then the outbreak of talents emanated. "

▲ Bird's view map west of Hong Kong Island, 1962. Paushan Road 8 (Zhang Ailing has lived in the Hong Kong University Girls' Dormitory for two years and four months) is located in the highest -level building visible in the picture. The mountain road at the bottom left is a university road. Provided by online forum gwulo.com

Through she saw the Hong Kong cultural environment in the 1930s

Huangxin Village has come to Hong Kong for five years. "Only when you are immersed can you feel the special nature of Hong Kong. Putting Zhang Ailing and Hong Kong together. What does Zhang Ailing mean to Zhang Ailing? , Too much, this is a big topic! "

She further elaborated, "For Zhang Ailing, the human environment of Hong Kong is her writing gene library. War is a pivotal milestone event in her life, which directly contributed to her to become a writer. For Hong Kong, Zhang Ailing took photos. It has brighted the human environment of Hong Kong in the 1930s. Since she came to Hong Kong University in 1939, she has regarded the human environment of the entire 30s of the 30s of the 30s of the 30s, especially her Chinese teacher (Xu Dishan). The modern history view brought by the historical class teacher (Franham) taught her to look at the great history from a brief vision. "

From the perspective of Huangxin Village, there are two parts of the culture of Hong Kong in the 1930s, and one of them is the humanistic revival brought by the southern literati represented by Xu Dishan. What is very important for Zhang Ailing is the reading culture of the colonial site. The text is very rich. In addition to classic literature, there are many medium -interest literature, which are in her field of vision. "Through Zhang Ailing, we actually see the human environment in Hong Kong in the 1930s. Through observing the relationship between Zhang Ailing and Hong Kong, the two major roots of the Hong Kong cultural environment in the 1930s have been illuminated in the 1930s." Huangxin Village

Professor of the Department of Literature of the University of Hong Kong, Ph.D. in the Department of Langa Language and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles, and post -doctoral post -doctoral post doctors of the University of California Berkeley. He has long coached the University of Wisconsin for a long time, as a professor at the Department of Language and Literature of East Asia and the director of the East Asian Research Center. The field of research covers Chinese literature in the twentieth century, cross -cultural research and audiovisual culture research. The works related to Zhang Ailing include Women, War, DOMESTICITY: SHANGHAI LITERATURE and POPULAR CULTURE of the 1940s ("Writing in Chaos: Zhang Ailing and Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture during the Occupation Period") and Written On Water: A Collection of Essays by Essays. The new book "Original Hong Kong: Zhang Ailing's Alien and World" published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong was regarded as a new breakthrough in the field of research in Zhang Ailing.

Jin Minhua

For more than 30 years of media career, he has lived in Hong Kong for 21 years. He is the author of "Baihua's Material Life" (coincident with Xiaoyu) "Potofino phenomenon" (co -authored with Shi Jian), which is compiled with "Great Navigation Age", "Hug the Blue Ocean" and "Wind Wind" and other reflection of Shenzhen sailing boats. Culture -related books.

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