Xu Guangping - Travel

Wife of Chinese literary figure Lu Xun. Women's activist. Pen name Jing Song, etc. Born in Panyu County, Guangdong Province. Entered Beijing Women's Normal University in 1923, where she served as student council president. After the March 18 incident, in which Duan Qirui suppressed student activism, she escaped Beijing with Lu Xun, who was also a professor, and both became teachers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. In October 1927, to escape Chiang Kai-shek's oppression, she escaped Guangzhou again and went to Shanghai, where she began living with Lu Xun the following year in 1928. After Lu Xun's death in 1936, he worked to organize his writings and published the Complete Works of Lu Xun, but in 1941 he was arrested by the Japanese military's military police when they occupied the Shanghai Concession and injured his leg during torture.

After the founding of the People's Republic, she held important positions such as member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and vice-chairman of the National Women's Federation, and visited Japan in 1951 and 1961. She died on March 4, 1968 at the age of 70. Her collection of letters with Lu Xun, Liang Di Shu (1933), is a record of their affection and is also of great literary value. Before and After the Disaster (1947; translated into Japanese as Records of a Dark Night), is a valuable record of her arrest by the Japanese Military Police. She also wrote many other works that chronicle her memories of Lu Xun, such as Lu Xun's Memories (1961).

[Ando Hikotaro]

"Memoirs of Lu Xun" translated by Hiromitsu Matsui (1968, Chikuma Bunko)" ▽ "Records of a Dark Night" translated by Hikotaro Ando (Iwanami Shinsho) ▽ "Books of Two Lands" by Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, translated by Yoshitaka Takeuchi and Shigeo Matsueda (1978, Chikuma Bunko)"

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中国の文学者魯迅(ろじん)の夫人。婦人活動家。筆名は景宋など。広東(カントン)省番禺(ばんぐう)県生まれ。1923年北京(ペキン)女子師範大学に入学、自治会委員長。段祺瑞(だんきずい)が学生運動を弾圧した三・一八事件のあと、兼担教授の魯迅とともに北京を脱出、広州(こうしゅう)の中山大学でともに教職についたが、1927年10月、蒋介石(しょうかいせき)の弾圧から免れるため、ふたたび広州を脱出、上海(シャンハイ)に赴いて、翌1928年、魯迅との同居生活に入った。1936年、魯迅が死去したあと、その著作の整理に努め『魯迅全集』の刊行にあたったが、1941年上海の租界を占領した日本軍の憲兵隊に逮捕され、拷問によって足を傷めた。

　人民共和国成立以後は、全国人民代表大会常務委員、全国婦女連合会副主席などの要職にあり、1951年（昭和26）、1961年には日本を訪問した。1968年3月4日70歳で死去。魯迅との往復書簡集『両地書』（1933）は愛情の記録であり、文学的にも価値が高い。『遭難前後』（1947／邦訳名『暗い夜の記録』）は日本軍憲兵隊に逮捕された際の貴重な記録。そのほか『魯迅回憶録』（1961）など魯迅の思い出を綴(つづ)った多くの著作がある。

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『松井博光訳『魯迅回想録』（1968・筑摩叢書）』▽『安藤彦太郎訳『暗い夜の記録』（岩波新書）』▽『魯迅・許広平著、竹内好・松枝茂夫訳『両地書』（1978・筑摩叢書）』

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