Zhou Yang (politician)

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History: Chernyshevsky influence on Zhou

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== History ==
== History ==
Zhou also translated the works of [[Leo Tolstoy]] and other Russian writers into Chinese.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/chinahistoricalc0000unse/page/386 |title=China: A Cultural and Historical Dictionary |publisher=Curzon Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-7007-0439-6 |editor-last=Dillon |editor-first=Michael |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chinahistoricalc0000unse/page/386 386]}}</ref> Shortly before the [[Yan'an Forum]] in 1942, he translated [[Nikolay Chernyshevsky|Nikolai Chernyshevsky]]'s ''The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality'' into into Chinese.<ref name=":Kindler2">{{Cite book |last=Kindler |first=Benjamin |title=Writing to the Rhythm of Labor: Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 1942-1976 |date=2025 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |isbn=978-0-231-21932-7 |location=New York City, NY}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=23}}
Zhou also translated the works of [[Leo Tolstoy]] and other Russian writers into Chinese.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/chinahistoricalc0000unse/page/386 |title=China: A Cultural and Historical Dictionary |publisher=Curzon Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-7007-0439-6 |editor-last=Dillon |editor-first=Michael |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chinahistoricalc0000unse/page/386 386]}}</ref> Shortly before the [[Yan'an Forum]] in 1942, he translated [[Nikolay Chernyshevsky|Nikolai Chernyshevsky]]'s ''The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality'' into into Chinese.<ref name=":Kindler2">{{Cite book |last=Kindler |first=Benjamin |title=Writing to the Rhythm of Labor: Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 1942-1976 |date=2025 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |isbn=978-0-231-21932-7 |location=New York City, NY}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=23}} Zhou described himself as being a "loyal follower" of Chernyshevsky, stating that Chernyshevsky's "famous formula of 'beauty is life' carries a fundamental truth."<ref name=":Kindler2" />{{Reference page|page=26}}


Zhou's 1941 essay ''A Casual Discussion on Art and Life'' addressed the relationship between art and life through the idea of cultural practice.<ref name=":Kindler2" />{{Reference page|page=26}} It examined the dialectical relationship between art and life in what Zhou referred to as "the practice of life" and "the practice of creation".<ref name=":Kindler2" />{{Reference page|page=26}}
Zhou's 1941 essay ''A Casual Discussion on Art and Life'' addressed the relationship between art and life through the idea of cultural practice.<ref name=":Kindler2" />{{Reference page|page=26}} It examined the dialectical relationship between art and life in what Zhou referred to as "the practice of life" and "the practice of creation".<ref name=":Kindler2" />{{Reference page|page=26}}
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