Xu Daran

Xu Daran

Xu Daran, a native of Tainan, was born in 1940. He graduated from the Department of Donghai history. He holds a master's degree from Harvard and a doctor's degree from the University of Chicago. He is now teaching at Northwestern University of the United States and is engaged in the study of Taiwan's social history. He has won the first youth literature and Art Award (1965), golden pen Award (1978), Fucheng literature special contribution award (1998) and Wu Sanlian Literature Award (2001). His prose has social consciousness, realistic and humanistic care, rational and perceptual blend. He has collected essays such as tearful smile, distance, earth, waterside and sidewalk.

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Xu Daran

(September 25, 1940 -), formerly known as Xu Wenxiong, is a well-known Taiwan historian and literary writer.

Study experience

Xu Daran, the eldest son of Mr. Xu Xiaohua and Ms. He Fu, was deeply cared and taught by Mr. Deng Zhengzong when he was in the primary school of Tainan National School (now the central and Western District of Tainan National School). He studied in the junior middle school of Tainan No.1 middle school. After graduating from the senior middle school of Tainan Changrong middle school, he was admitted to the Department of history of Donghai University in Taichung, and studied under Wang Dezhao and Yang Shaozhen Professor Li Liewen, Professor LAN Wenzheng, Professor Li Liewen, etc., graduated from the University and served as reserve officer. He stayed in the University as a teaching assistant. He got a scholarship to study at Harvard University and got a master's degree. He got a doctor's degree at the University of Chicago in the United States. Since 1969, he has taught at Northwestern University (Illinois in the United States). In the 1980s, he also went to Oxford University to do research. His main academic specialty is Taiwan history, especially Taiwan history It is the history of Taiwan society and culture.

He is also a modern literature writer and poet who writes in Chinese. He has published 17 anthologies and one poetry anthology, and some of his works have been translated into English, French, German, Japanese and Korean.

works

He devoted himself to the creation of prose poetry. His works are based on the real life of the society, full of philosophy and humanitarian spirit, and his style swept away the tendency of flashy and lustrous. His first collection of essays is a tearful smile, which is also his famous work. Since 1979, he has successively published prose collections such as Earth (1979), spit (1984), far away (1984), waterside (1984), sidewalk (1986), windbreak (1986) and sympathetic understanding. His new poem "dieluohan" won the new poem award of Wu zhuolui literature award.

The most impressive impression of his works is that he has a strong social consciousness and is extremely concerned about the fate of the people at the bottom of the society. He once strongly appealed to prose writers to "create more prose with distinct themes, thoughts in content, reflecting the times and containing society", despised lyric prose with "playing with cruel reality as a cage bird" and famous scholar style sketches with "self-centered and leisure style". Another characteristic of Xu Daran's creation is that he relies heavily on images and pays attention to the concentration of language, which is obviously influenced by modernist literature. He likes to use artistic techniques such as hint, contrast and contrast to infiltrate his rational understanding of life, society and history in the selection and construction of images, thus forming the special style of his prose.

Character features

Xu Daran's prose has three main features: (1) concise narration. In addition to expressing his personal depression in his early days, Xu Daran's works mostly exclude the expression of self emotion and tend to the theme of civilized society or local feelings. His prose expresses rational exploration instead of indulgent narration. (2) Jump sentence pattern. In one sentence, the author deleted some redundant words. When reading, readers can't pass by smoothly, they must think. In addition, he is also good at using the truest syntax to let the meaning swing in the rhythm of the sound. (3) Flexible use of words. Xu Daran often uses reduplicated words to enhance his mood, and sometimes uses the external arrangement of words to trigger the potential connotation of words. Such as "lost forest": "it (Ashan) is not rare civilization, but is locked in civilization, forced to see everyone who is not a monkey." In this sentence, the parallel expression of six characters is used to show the loneliness and boredom of a Shan among the crowd.

He wrote academic works in English and Chinese, some of which were translated into Chinese and Japanese.

He has retired from Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) and received the honorary professor title from the University.

As a student at Donghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, he had a close relationship with Yang Kui, a senior left-wing writer in Taiwan, and with other senior Taiwan writers such as Zhong Zhaozheng, Ye Shitao, Zheng Qingwen, Chen Yingzhen and Nanfang Shuo. He has long been a member of United literature, a literary journal in Taiwan. In recent years, his research direction has also focused on the history of Taiwan literature.

From November 10, 2005, he returned to Donghai University, his alma mater in Taiwan, as a resident expert.

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