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By Harold K. Milks United Press Staff Correspondent
THE
white-walled
The English Novel in the past 20 years
This is the toxt of a talk delivered recently by Professor HSIAO CHIEN, of Fuhtan University, before a meeting of the Shang hai Branch of the Sino-British Cultural Association.
Several
writers have become Catholics while others have become devout bellovers in the Yogi. With. the threat of Atomic warfare, the impact of the machine on the minds of the British writers must be still more adverso,
HIRST, I must set my chrono- logical boundary clearly be- fore you.
By "the last two decades" I do not wish to in- clule the seven war years. Many people can instantly name a novel as the novel of the last war, namely "South Wind" by Norman Douglas; just as Rupert į Brook is fairly widely accepted topher Isherwood. When Julian sellers, and Hollywood has paid HELE les the fundamental, dlf-
Bell was shot while driving an royalties to these writers.
very handsomely in the form of as the poet of the preceding ambulance in Spain and John even be said that quite a few popular of our two nations. war. But alas, in this war, Cornfield killed while fighting novelists to-day have Hollywood in bored with the stent engine, whilst such convenience is denied us, with the International Brigade several, like Isherwood, have settled an industrial revolution.
mind when they are writing, and we Chinese are just on the eve of
Vacuum
It
can
Two Moods
ference in the intellectual mood The British are
A Chinese writer Instinctively sneers at your Whether one agrees with the high-mysticism, because he has had too away Franco though they were brow novelists or not, one must ad- much of it,
quite fully occupied with tackl-mit that never in the history of writ
ing have there been two such rich In a country such as Britala,
ing the Japanese aggression.
New Technique
writers.
In one
Two Categories
we
It is because we in China still have our Magna Carta to be signed. It
bes cause we in China have still our Re- form Bill to fight for. It is because
least 1 century. The novel
We
in
It has not been possible to name either one single writer or book near Cordovn. Chinese writers in Hollywood as scenario we wet
were also attacking the far as representativt or outstand- ing of this war....I believe it will be less possible to do so in the coming atomic war.
decades as 1920 to 1940, when each governed in a constitutional fashion This
serious writer was trying a new palace war has not only produced no
pattern, an unprecedented method, and ron by a solid civil service, the which the Japanese in-literary-giant, it has cruelly de
government itself in machine, fair, vaders built for their ill-fated prived us of two novelists who I
sense it can be said that automatic and impersonal. It takes TN China has been a total disin- the novel of this period have become
tegration between the puppet premier, Wang Ching in their lifetime probably con-Jar and the classien lterature since of War and Peace or Middlemarch, the British people. Yet you com- verancu- narrower compared with the canvas care of all the hard facts in life for wei, is now become the new tributed, from a technical point 1915, when the colloquial style alone but the ambition has become greater. plain of having too much of it. The American Embassy in Nanking of view, more than any novelists medium.
was canonised as the only literary Every novelist in his or her own way Chinese writers clamour for more A sharp disintegration of attempted to embrace the entire machine, more system and less per- Rejected by Generalissimo in the past. I mean the death a different kind took place in Eng-life, if not the universe, in its quin-sonal relations. It is not that land also the cleavage between the tessence, through focusing on one don't speak the same language. Chiang Kai-shek because it of Mr James Joyce in 1941 fol- high-brow with its headquarters in specifle spot, smells too much of both lowed by the suicide of Virginia Bloomsbury, and the low brow Japanese ani puppets," the ten-Woolf, aere property, whose buildings
In fact, at about that time, a total new technique for the writing of novelists could be classified in sealed from you by at were completed only after the
the novel was coming to birth- grammatical terms, must of them Britain, especially between the two death of Wang Ching-wel, is
technique which involved a break would come within two categories, wars, has been treated as an art. was a striking simila-away from the tradition of Fielding, the exclamatory' and the Interrogas equal to any branch of the fine arts; serving both as offices and THERE
Defoe, June Austen and which istive. The interrogative novelists
in China, it has been and stui re rity between the predicament still being worked out. official residence for Ambassa-
Insk questions all the time. Most nains a weapon for fighting against ja which the British
But what caused this technical re-novelists of this period have a ques- injustice, and an instrument for re- dor Leighton Stuart,
volution?
The reasons are mani- tion in mind, Chinese writers found
form. The old American Embassy cam-¦ selves during the first decade The novel was rather social litera To me, the happiest bridge-over
between tradition and ture than poetry, depending on the philosopher and the artist, is to experiment. pound, built to order by a Nanking following the Armistice in
of values which have now simply contractor ten years ago and leased 1919, namely, a feeling of empti- ceased to exist. This is a negative for that period, is being purchased
The positive one being the for use as residence quarters
ness, a philosophical vacuum. irresistible influence of the *7.15 & 9.15 p.m. other State Department personnel in The fervour of the early re-of psychology, especially of the
Freudian School, publicans in Chins had lessened Confucian influence SHOW PLACE
over the thinking of the intellectuals of Show place of the Chinese cupi- this generation to a pitiable de- ial, the puppel palace, with ils fine gree, but in place of it, thera HERE is also an economic aspect: buildings, well situated walls--parti-had formed nothing positive or vention and popularity of the
Darwin's theory novelist of
has robbed the PORSTER expressed his hatred of cularly for defence of the occupants so universal.
his legitimate patrous,
the machine, especially in his short and the largest swimming pool in of evolution had also con- Who
mons the
story "The Machine Stops," Virginia present-day Nanking, was earmarked for the sidorably shaken the religious novelists can rival Dickens or Mark Woolf in her "Orlando" and "Be- Generalissimo when
tween the Aets makes it quite clear the govern-authority in the West. There Twain in income? Millions of Eng-that she hated the modern age alto- meet returned from Chungking last were already undeniable signs kens as
lishmen regarded the death of Dic-
in his "Brave New May. But Chiang Kai-shek, after an before the last war.
claema has robbed the novelists not ture of what the world would be like
a national calamity. The ether. Huxley in
World" has painted a gruesome pic- Inspection of the Japanese-designed
only of wealth but also of their fol- the machine triumphs. Lawrence, bulldings, shook his head and moved
lowing Facing the threat of extine- into far inferior quarters within the Ministry of National Defence.
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disintegration. The in-
cinema, which
be found in route Furster's novels, Unlike his younger contem- poraries, he does not belleve that the novel can discard the element story-telling. With all his hysteria and faults, D. H. Lawrence was the leading spokesman of the 30's frahy were to be appointed.
Hatred of Machine
the machine with all the ferocity he was capable of.
tion, the well-to-do novelists accept- as the most articulate spokesman of whose subtlety and beauty is far be ed the challenge by writing novels these two decades, has cursed yond the reach of the screen.
The self-made novelists took up the chal-
ferent
write novels manner. They try to
more thrilling, than Boris Karloff, more gripping than
Leon
mure
In his later years, when his hat- red for the machine became fanatical, he did more than curse the machine, he galluntly denied that il existed,
is
IN the second decade there was also a close similarity, in this case, I should call it identity, none of Wang Ching-wei, not even between the mood of British lenge of the screcen in quite a dif the palace bullt for the puppet, Sourds close to the family of the and Chinese writers, namely, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang the common detestation of Fas- Kai-shek said Madame, captivated cism and the fight against it.Chayne and funnier than the Marx by the palace, was not eager to sur-The 30's can be easily called the Wallace, Philip Oppenheim and P. tions in the sensitive minds of the Brothers. Such writers are Edgar The last war causes various reaċ- "Pink Age.' During this G, Wodehouse. Incidentally, the film British writers, but one. result period, (and for China, the time Industry and the so-called low-brow quite common, namely this hatred following), many usually non-writers have gradually come la of the machine and a tendency to political writers became either of alliance. A large number of
return to the Medieval Splendour of involved or
Hollywood films originated from best the High Church, interested in poli- ties. Without any contact or pre-arrangement, Chinese and British writers were at the same time (in the rank and file) { of what ን፥ then called the United Front.
render it, but the Generalissimo re- mained firm. After some months of stulemate, -arrangements were made to pass title to the property to the United States Government.
Payment for the ten acres, with itg set of fine buildinga, will be through an exchange resulting from the Chinese Government's purchase of war surplus supplies in the Pacific islands. Under this transaction US$35,000,000 was made available for use of the American government in constructing or purchasing official
quarters in China.
IDEAL PLACE
Cost of Wang Ching-wet's palace will be determined by a board of three comprising one American, one Chinese and one neutral. It will be the first American-owned Embassy In Nanking, as the previous buildings were leased. The United States stil retains its old Embassy in Pelping under the terms of a grant from the Chinese government, using it as consulate.
a
American oficials did not share Chiang Kai-shek's objection to the puppet palace. Well designed and construeied and ideally arranged for Embassy uses, It provides not only adequate offices but a proper resi dence for the Ambassador and some members of his staff.
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(Copyright, 1917, by Ely Culbertson)
Writers for perhaps the first
It is an elementary polut of bridge one, and his honours would have time in history issued mani- festos in the first person plural. you should "name your preference."
that when partner has bid two suits, wiped out even that loss. Scores of novels came out to Unfortunately, however, what is true sound warnings against Hitler] in an elementary sense is not always and Mussolini, notably from the true in more advanced play. Take pen of Storm Jameson, Ignazio this fort of deal, for instance:
South, dealer Silone, H. E. Bates and Chris- Both sides vulnerable
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mere preference—but co- sider! To begin with, North's one tio trump response to spade spening optimis:le in istifa meck pres Was would not have been too cowardly an North's almost hopeless holding. Then East bid hearts, and the greatest puri of North's slim values, the heart king, became a highly questionable asset,
In short, North had little enough before the heart bid, after that bid, he had virtually nothing.
So, despite the strength of Soulia's | three-diamond bld. North new (or should have known) that there was no "future" in the hand. After all, South had not opened with a two- bid: That
therefore
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