The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Zhou Hexuan (March 17, 1898-August 8, 2015), courtesy name Mingcheng, was born in Hebei, grew up in Nanyang, and traveled in the West.

Famous modern and contemporary Chinese writers, historians, musicians, political commentators, calligraphers, orators, educators, diplomats, philanthropists, inventors, collectors, cartoonists, anthropologists, sociologists, linguistics Homeowners, patriotic journalists, and red capitalists. He is the author of the novels "Black Soil" and "The Goddess", the novella "The City of People", the poem "Praise", and the monographs on history "The Rise of Great Powers", "Guns, Bacteria and Steel" and other works.

【Basic Information】

Chinese name: Zhou Hexuan

English name: Charles·Chou

Nationality: Chinese

Nationality: Han

Birthplace: Hebei

Date of Birth: 1898

Date of death: 2015

Occupation: Writer, historian

Known as: Wizard of the Far East

【Character Biography】

early life--

On March 17, 1898, Zhou Hexuan was born in a rural gentry family in Hebei.

In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, and the Zhou family was destroyed by war. Zhou Hexuan went to Malaya with his parents to join his distant uncle.

In 1906, the natives of Malaya rioted, and Zhou Hexuan's parents and uncle died unexpectedly.

From 1906 to 1908, the young Zhou Hexuan could only survive by begging and stealing.

In 1908, Zhou Hexuan was taken in by an American missionary and went to the United States. After the death of the missionary, Zhou Hexuan wandered around the United States, often pretending to be an Asian student studying in American colleges and universities.

In 1918, the 20-year-old Zhou Hexuan traveled to Europe, traveled to more than ten countries in Europe, and mastered multiple languages.

In 1925, Zhou Hexuan went to Japan by boat and returned to China half a year later.

The situation of the Republic of China——

In 1926, Zhou Hexuan settled in Tianjin.

In April, Zhou Hexuan serialized "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the "New Tianjin Evening News" under the pseudonym "Jin Yong", creating a precedent for modern martial arts novels. The sequels include "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji", which are also called "The Condor Shooting Trilogy". In the Beijing-Tianjin area, everyone scrambled to circulate it, and for a while, "Luoyang paper was expensive". Because the serialization speed was too slow, the warlord Chu Yupu put Zhou Hexuan under house arrest, urged him to change by force, and admired his talent, so he enlisted Zhou Hexuan as his foreign language secretary.

In May, Zhou Hexuan began to create the masterpiece of history "The Rise of Great Powers", which was serialized in "Zi Lin Xi Bao" and "Beijing-Tianjin Times", creating "modern historiography", known as "the originator of modern historiography", which deeply influenced The development of international historical research.

In June, with the support of Zhang Xueliang, Zhou Hexuan invited Hu Zhengzhi and Zhang Jiluan to re-run "Ta Kung Pao", and put forward the eight-character policy of "no party, no sale, no selfishness, and no blindness".

In July, Zhou Hexuan, together with Zhang Xueliang and Feng Yong, founded the "China Hope Education Foundation". Over the past few decades, more than 600 "Hope Primary Schools" have been built in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, Hong Kong and other places. Development has contributed enormously. At the end of the same month, Zhou Hexuan gave a speech "I have a dream" on the train, which caused a sensation all over the country and inspired generations of passionate young people to work hard for the prosperity of the country.

In September, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated by the reactionary warlord Chu Yufeng, shot and injured, and survived.

In October, Zhou Hexuan's literary masterpiece "Goddess" was serialized in "Novel Monthly", causing a sensation in the world literary circle. "Goddess", "The Dog Official" and "The Legend of the Dog Official" are collectively known as the "Magic Trilogy", which created the trend of "Magic Realism", and was known as "the pinnacle of the May Fourth New Literature Issue novel", "the New Literature Movement" The final work of the book" and "the beginning of the wave of magical realism in the world", which will have a profound impact on the traditional literature of the East and the West in the next few decades.

In November, Zhang Zuolin sent troops to surround Peking University, and professors resigned one after another and went south. Zhou Hexuan was appointed as the president of Peking University in the face of danger, and used his personal savings to pay the salaries of the faculty and staff. He also joined forces with professors from Peking University and Tsinghua University to form a "Chinese University Textbook Compilation Group" to compile a series of science and engineering textbooks in line with China's actual conditions.

In February 1927, Zhou Hexuan responded to the vigorous feminist movement and improved women's underwear. After decades of development, "Mei Kou" underwear has become a well-known international brand, sharing the eastern and western markets with the "Victoria's Secret" series.

In May of that year, there was a catastrophe in Shandong. Zhou Hexuan founded the charity organization "Jiminhui" in Tianjin, and went to the disaster area to carry out disaster relief activities. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is a well-known modern and contemporary philanthropist in my country. He has been helping victims of disasters, helping the poor, and donating to the country for decades. There was a "Zhou Hexuan Sheng Temple" in Sichuan in the 1980s.

In March 1928, the historical anthropology masterpiece "Guns, Bacteria and Steel" was published, which was later selected as a textbook by hundreds of universities in the world. Zhou Hexuan was hailed as "the founder of historical anthropology". French historian Lucien Favere believed that Zhou Hexuan was the guide of the "Yearbook School". He said bluntly in the "Yearbook" magazine: ""The Rise of Great Powers" and "Guns, Germs and Steel" undoubtedly lead the history of the world. The trend of research is like a lighthouse in the vast sea, guiding the direction of the world history. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is undoubtedly the greatest historian, anthropologist and sociologist in the world today, and his works are irreplaceable and groundbreaking .”

In April, China Radio Station was founded, and Zhou Hexuan personally anchored "Gossip at 7:00 P.M.", praising and criticizing current affairs and criticizing celebrities. People at the time called it "Electronic Essays", creating a precedent for TV and radio interview programs in my country.

In May, Zhou Hexuan moved into Tianjin Sanle Hall.

In June, "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" was published. In the same month, Dai Jitao published "On Japan".

In September, Zhou Hexuan was invited by Luo Jialun to give a lecture on "History of Human Civilization" in Tsinghua University. This book was later jointly published with the British historian Toynbee, namely "Historical Research", which broke the Western-centred theory and the single historical view of linear development of history, and has a high status in the works of Eastern and Western historical philosophy.

In April 1929, Zhou Hexuan was invited to serve as the deputy director of Tianjin Guoshu Museum. In June, Zhou Hexuan and Lu Xun met by chance in Tianjin, and they went to Peiping together, where they had a good talk.

In October, Zhou Hexuan joined "Wuzhou Hongmen" and "Zhi Gong Dang" as "Hongmen Xinfu". In the same month, "Goddess" won the French Goncourt Literature Prize, and Zhou Hexuan became the first Asian to win this award.

In November, Zhou Hexuan funded the construction of the "Cemetery of Chinese Laborers Aiding France in World War I", which aroused French society's attention to Chinese laborers. The French media called Chinese laborers who aided France "sons of heaven".

In January 1930, Zhou Hexuan met with Einstein and proposed a famous experiment in the field of quantum physics - Zhou Hexuan's cat.

In February, "Titanic" was published in the United States and became popular all over the United States. The novel was adapted into movies twice, and both won the global box office champion of the year.

In March, Zhou Hexuan founded the Study Abroad Foundation. Over the past 20 years, more than 600 students have been funded to study in Europe and the United States, including "Father of Chinese Cloning Zhou Di Zhou".

In April, the Pulitzer Prize for History was vacant for the first time because two final judges objected to the award for "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

In March 1930, "General History of the World" was published, redefining world history. The book has been designated as a textbook by hundreds of universities at home and abroad, and the "global view of history" has been widely spread since then, and has had a profound impact on the international political relations of later generations.

In September 1931, Zhou Hexuan joined forces with Peking teachers and students to develop an earthen hand grenade method, and this set of manufacturing equipment was named "Seven People's Back". From 1931 to 1945, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the "Seven Backs" were active on the vast frontal battlefield and the battlefield behind enemy lines, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese invaders. In October, Zhou Hexuan began to publish a large number of international and domestic political commentaries. These articles were included in the "San Le Tang Anthology", which is an important document for the study of history before and after World War II.

In May 1932, Zhou Hexuan was invited to participate in the International Non-War Conference, and initiated the establishment of the "International Anti-French Alliance", and then founded the "Non-Gong" magazine in China. By the end of World War II, the alliance had developed more than 200,000 formal members. In August, Zhou Hexuan founded "Cognitive Linguistics", and based on this, formed the "London School", "Paris School" and "New York School" in linguistics. In the same month, he participated in the discovery of the medical value of sulfonamide and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939. In September, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was serialized in the British "Scientific School" magazine, which has influenced generation after generation of science fiction literature.

In July 1933, "Black Soil" was serialized in "Fei Gong" magazine. The book is a magnificent Northeast epic, showing the social changes in the Northeast in modern times for more than half a century. It is a monument in the history of Chinese literature.

In 1934, when the "silver crisis" broke out in China, Zhou Hexuan went to the United States and the United Kingdom to lobby, which greatly helped the national government to carry out currency reform. During the period, a private flying club was established in the United States, and a large number of aviation personnel were trained for the War of Resistance.

In April 1935, invested in the construction of my country's first bridge across the Yangtze River, "Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge". In May, co-founded Li Bao with Zhang Henshui and Cheng Shewo.

In October, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated in London by a student studying in Japan. A year later, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated again, and the Japanese government wanted to get rid of him quickly.

In 1936, Zhou Hexuan and Wang Zhengting led Chinese athletes to compete in the Berlin Olympic Games and won 6 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 2 bronze medals. The athletes broke world records many times. In July of the same year, Zhou Hexuan moved to Chongqing and spent huge sums of money to help the victims in central Sichuan. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Anti-Japanese war years——

When the country was in crisis, Zhou Hexuan stepped forward and went to the United States and the United Kingdom successively to help the national government negotiate a "tung oil loan" and open the closed Yunnan-Myanmar Highway ahead of schedule. And donated nearly a hundred aircraft at one time, was awarded the "Lion Dancing Sword", and served as the vice chairman of the China Aviation Committee.

From 1936 to 1937, Zhou Hexuan vigorously built factories and mines to provide many materials and commodities for the rear. Among them, the pharmaceutical factory built in Hechuan County supplies a large amount of medicines to the army and civilians every year, and has contributed a lot to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

In 1938, Zhou Hexuan collected and sorted out a large amount of materials, and co-edited "Nanjing Massacre" with Rabe. After World War II, these materials were submitted to the Tokyo International Tribunal as important evidence for the trial of Japanese war criminals.

In 1939, Southwest Associated University was facing various difficulties. Zhou Hexuan donated a lot of materials and invented a scientific method of raising chickens. This method is quickly extended to the whole country, even the world, and has been used in small and medium-sized chicken farms in the 21st century.

In the same year, the Anti-Japanese War comic "Captain of China" began to be serialized, which was the first of its kind in Chinese fantasy comics.

In 1941, Zhou Hexuan went to Dunhuang in person to prevent Zhang Daqian from destroying murals and preserved a large number of mural treasures for our country.

In 1942, "The Little Prince" was published and became a best-selling literary work in the world.

In 1943, Zhou Hexuan wrote the novella "People's City", and was put under house arrest for half a year for reflecting the tragic situation of the disaster victims in Henan and exposing the dark rule of the Nationalist Party. While under house arrest, Zhou Hexuan published the historical monograph "Fifteen Years of Wanli", which became a classic in the study of Ming history. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan and Joseph Needham co-founded the "Sino-British Scientific Cooperation Museum", which promoted the connection between China and the world's academic circles during the war, and provided Chinese academic circles with a large number of documents and scientific equipment.

Hong Kong Times——

In 1945, Zhou Hexuan purchased the Hilltop Villa in Hong Kong, and settled here with his family the following year. He cooperated with his father-in-law Zhang Mouzhi to purchase land and build a factory in Hong Kong, laying a solid industrial and commercial foundation.

In 1946, Zhou Hexuan secretly donated mainland assets to our party, and took advantage of the split of the Japanese consortium to buy shares in dozens of Japanese companies in one go.

In 1947, Zhou Hexuan was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Order of the Garter issued by King George VI of the United Kingdom.

In the 1950s, the Korean War broke out, and the British Hong Kong government imposed an embargo on the mainland. Zhou Hexuan secretly smuggled and transported materials for New China for 26 years, and was praised by the central leadership as "a close comrade in arms of our party."

In 1954, the film library of Yonghua Film Company in Hong Kong caught fire and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhou Hexuan invested 1 million yuan to buy 90% of the shares, and personally wrote the script "A Chinese Ghost Story", which broke the box office record of Hong Kong films. Since then, Zhou Hexuan has entered the film and television industry and founded Hong Kong TVB in the 1970s.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a crisis broke out in the American film industry. Zhou Hexuan bought United Artists and MGM Films one after another, forming a joint company called "MGM-United Artists" under the management of Vivien Leigh.

In the 1980s, Zhou Hexuan founded the "Ultimate Fighting Championship" (UFC), which has been popular all over the world for more than 30 years and is known as the "Father of Mixed Martial Arts".

In 1981, Zhou Hexuan was invited to return to mainland China to invest, and his industries involved finance, real estate, manufacturing, tourism, shipping, Internet and many other fields.

take a bow--

At ten o'clock in the evening on August 8, 2015, Zhou Hexuan passed away peacefully at the age of 117.

【Character anecdotes】

About music——

Zhou Hexuan is recognized as the "Father of Rock Music", who composed the world's first rock song during World War II. He has also successively composed excellent songs and works such as "On the Songhua River", "Swan Goose", "The Great Wall Never Arrives", "My Motherland" and "My Heart Is Eternal".

About opera——

Zhou Hexuan has in-depth research on Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera, and once co-created the classic Peking Opera "Madame Huarui" with Li Shoumin.

About Poetry——

Zhou Hexuan is the originator of Chinese modern poetry, and his representative works include "A Generation", "Answer", "I Love This Land", "Praise" and other classic chapters.

About the invention——

Zhou Hexuan has improved women's underwear, invented the human-powered rice harvester, invented the "seven-back" grenade maker, and so on.

feminist movement -

During the Northern Expedition, Zhou Hexuan proposed the "Great Grandma Doctrine", calling on women to let go of their breasts, and put forward the four-character principle of "self-esteem, self-improvement, self-love, and self-reliance" for women, which was absorbed by Shanghai Zhongxi Girls' School as the second school motto.

Xiangfu Club——

The poet Xu Zhimo was once troubled by love and went to Xiangfu Temple to become a monk. Zhou Hexuan used clever tricks to create the most sensational literary event in the Republic of China era, and Xu Zhimo's idea of ​​becoming a monk was not dissuaded.

Wisdom Fighting Stick——

Demon Taoist Liu Congyun spread superstition in Sichuan, took the opportunity to amass money, and countless people went bankrupt. Zhou Hexuan printed "Safety Talismans" in batches, which broke Liu Congyun's reputation and executed him in a public trial.

Celebrity Calligraphy and Painting Harvester——

Zhou Hexuan has a well-known hobby, which is collecting calligraphy and paintings of celebrities. From scholars and celebrities to warlords and politicians, Zhou Hexuan collected more than 300 calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in the Republic of China in his lifetime, all of which are hidden in the "Mingcheng Museum".

【spouse】

Zhang Leyi: The daughter of the Zhang family, beautiful and intelligent, successively in charge of China Radio Station and Hong Kong TVB.

Meng Xiaodong: famous Peking Opera actor, Yu Shuyan's closed disciple, known as "Winter Emperor".

Guo Wanrong: Empress of the former Qing Dynasty, a famous female painter.

Liao Yaquan: A female entrepreneur who owns a large number of industries in Japan.

Yu Peichen: An underground party member, a descendant of a famous family, he took charge of Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" in his later years.

Ruan Lingyu: Famous movie star, movie queen of the Republic of China.

Zhou Xuan: Famous singer, known as "Golden Voice".

Ma Jue: The belle of Peking University, the daughter of Ma Yuzao, a Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

Cui Huifu: A famous lady in the Republic of China, who is proficient in music, painting, and embroidery. Together with Lu Bicheng, she is called "the second talented woman in Tianjin".

Vivien Leigh: A famous Hollywood movie star who served as the president of MGM in the 1970s.

【child】

Eldest son: Zhou Weilie (born by Zhang Leyi), mathematician, computer expert, Internet expert, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Second son: Zhou Shuoming (born by Wan Rong), a famous Hong Kong movie star.

The third son: Zhou Yangji (born by Liao Yaquan), an entrepreneur, has settled in Japan all year round.

Four sons: Zhou Guoxing (born by Liao Yaquan), a fighter, has been in charge of UFC events for more than 20 years.

Five sons: Zhou Shengguang (born by Zhang Leyi), entrepreneur, king of real estate in Hong Kong, king of manufacturing industry.

Six sons: Zhou Deyang (born by Zhou Xuan), an entrepreneur, has settled in the United States all year round.

Seven sons: Zhou Zhenyi (born by Zhou Xuan), entrepreneur, Chinese Internet boss.

The eighth son: Zhou Yuyu (born by Ma Jue), a politician, has been naturalized in Singapore.

Nine sons: Zhou Zhanghua (born to Yu Peichen), entrepreneur, Hong Kong film and television media tycoon.

Eldest daughter: Zhou Lingjun (born by Meng Xiaodong), writer, painter, calligrapher, musician, doctor of the Royal College of Art.

Second daughter: Zhou Chunxi (born Vivien Leigh), Queen of Medicine of England, Queen of Belgium.

Three daughters: Zhou Nan (born to Yu Peichen), fashion designer and owner of the "Mei Kou" brand.

Fourth daughter: Zhou Ning (born to Yu Peichen), a dancer, has been naturalized in the United States.

Fifth Daughter: Zhou Tong (born by Wanrong), cartoonist, master of Japanese girl comics.

Six daughters: Zhou Qingyi (born by Ruan Lingyu), writer, actor, director, producer.

Seven daughters: Zhou Xinyan (born by Zhou Xuan), singer, queen of Asia.