京华烟云英文版介绍.ppt

2015 MOMENT IN PEKING ------ by Cici, EE1, 0141102045 1 CONTENT 2 3 4 ABOUT THE WRITER INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STORY MAIN CHARACTERS MY OPINIONS OF THIS BOOK PART 1 1、Chinese writer 2、Born Oct. 10, 1895, Fujian province  Died March 26, 1976, Hong Kong 3、Studied in the U.S. and Europe in his early years 4、In 1932 he established a highly successful Western-style satirical magazine of a type totally new to China ABOUT THE WRITER LIN’S LEGACY 1、My Country and My People (吾国与吾民)(1935) 2、The Importance of Living (生活的艺术) (1937) 3、Moment in Peking(京华烟云) (1939) 4、Between Tears and Laughter (啼笑皆非) (1943) 5、The Vermillion Gate (朱门) (1953) nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature PART 2 Following the structure of A DRAM IN RED MANSIONS, LIN wrote THE MOMENT OF PEKING as a English novel. 1 2 THE MOMENT OF PEKING describes a story of YAO,ZENG and NIU three families vicissitudes in thirty years and all the happiness and sorrow between them since 1901. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STORY The novel covers the turbulent events in China from 1900 to 1938 3 4 the Boxer Uprising The Republican Revolution of 1911 The Warlord Era The rise of nationalism and communism, The origins of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STORY PART 3 MAIN CHARACTERS 1 2 PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE 3 PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE PUT YOUR TEXT HERE MAIN CHARACTERS 1 2 lively, intelligent, and generous, as well as extremely responsible 3 Mulan feels attracted to Lifu, but she honors her familys wish and advice that she marry Sunya MULAN YAO from the wealthy YAO family MAIN CHARACTERS 1 2 Mulans husband 3 the youngest son of his family Tseng Sunya (Zeng Sunya, 曾荪亚) MAIN CHARACTERS 1 2 Yao Mulans sister Clever and attractive 3 She married LIFU when he was a poor scholar Sh