The Death of Yuli - Zhenya, Xu
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The Death of Yuli originated from a sentimental love story between the author Xu Zhenya and the widow Chen Peifen. From 1909 to 1911, the author taught in Wuxi and sojourned in Cai Yinting, a famous calligrapher near the school. The Cai family had a widow, Chen Peifen, and his son had been learning from Xu Zhenya. Xu Zhenya and Chen Peifen went from mutual admiration to passionate love. They exchanged letters and sang poems. However, in the feudal society, widows were but miserable "undead" and could only feel like a dry well. Remarriage was destructive to the morals. It was hard to get…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Death of Yuli originated from a sentimental love story between the author Xu Zhenya and the widow Chen Peifen. From 1909 to 1911, the author taught in Wuxi and sojourned in Cai Yinting, a famous calligrapher near the school. The Cai family had a widow, Chen Peifen, and his son had been learning from Xu Zhenya. Xu Zhenya and Chen Peifen went from mutual admiration to passionate love. They exchanged letters and sang poems. However, in the feudal society, widows were but miserable "undead" and could only feel like a dry well. Remarriage was destructive to the morals. It was hard to get married with each oter. So Chen Peifen had to marry her niece Cai Ruizhu to Xu Zhenya. Therefore, the author wrote this novel and revealed the sorrow of love in his heart.
Autorenporträt
Xu Zhenya, a novelist of the Republic of China. Xu Zhenya's family name was Jue, styled himself Zhenya. He was born in Changshu, Jiangsu and famous for writing parallel prose novels in the early Republic of China. He was a member of Nanshe and ever studied at Changshu Yunan School in his early years. Later, he mainly engaged in novel creation. He was good at describing the love tragedy of young men and women in gorgeous classical Chinese, and was the main representative writer of the Mandarin Duck & Butterfly School. The representative works include "the Death of Yuli", "History of Snow Hung's Tears", "Wave Ink" and "Acacia". His novels were mainly about romance. In his novel, he often borrowed western novel techniques and was good at writing parallel prose. In 1912, a film "the Death of Yuli" became very popular among the readers at that time, with influence reaching Southeast Asia. It was made into a film in 1924 and adapted into a drama in 1926.