Zhu Ziqing

A contemporary Chinese poet, prose writer, and scholar, his pen name was Pei Xuan. He was born in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province, but his family moved to Yangzhou (Jiangsu Province) when he was young, so he calls himself a Yangzhou native. After graduating from the philosophy department of Beijing University in 1920, he taught in various places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and in 1925 he became a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. During the Anti-Japanese War, he transferred to Southwest United University in Kunming (Yunnan Province) when Tsinghua University moved south, and returned to Beijing in 1946, where he died of illness in 1948. He began writing modern poetry while studying at Peking University, and became known for his long poem "Destruction," but after becoming a professor at Tsinghua University, he turned to writing prose and researching classical Chinese literature, producing a large number of works. In addition to the poetry collection "Traces" (1924) and the prose collection "Background" (1928), the majority of his writings are collected in four volumes of the "Collection of Writings by Zhu Ziqing" (1953).

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中国現代の詩人、散文作家、学者。字(あざな)は佩弦(はいげん)。江蘇(こうそ／チヤンスー)省東海県に生まれたが、幼いときに一家が揚州(ようしゅう／ヤンチョウ)（江蘇省）に移ったため、自らは揚州の人という。1920年、北京(ペキン)大学哲学系を卒業したあと、江蘇・浙江(せっこう／チョーチヤン)の各地で教員生活を送り、25年、北京清華大学の教授に着任した。抗日戦争中は清華大学の南遷に伴い、昆明(こんめい／クンミン)（雲南(うんなん／ユンナン)省）の西南聯合(れんごう)大学に移り、46年に北京に帰って48年病没した。北京大学在学中から現代詩の創作を始め、長詩「毀滅(きめつ)」で名を知られたが、清華大学教授に就任後は散文の創作と中国古典文学の研究に転じ、数多くの著述がある。詩集『蹤跡(しょうせき)』（1924）、散文集『背景(はいえい)』（1928）のほか、著述の大部分は『朱自清文集』4冊（1953）にまとめられている。

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