The Foreign Influence On The Essays Of Yuchun Liang

At the beginning of the 20th century, many foreign essays were translated into Chinese. Especially, English essays and the theories about the essay were translated into Chinese and introduced by Chinese scholars. So there was a good climate for writing essay. Chinese morden essays were much better.Yuchun Liang did a large quantity of translation. Especially, he translated a lot of English essays. The foreign articles enlightened him. He combined his realization of the translation with the spirit of the time to form unique ideas such as personality, democracy, idealism which his essays showed. Also, his essays were interesting because he combined the old things with the modern things and he liked to use Chinese and foreign many anecdotes. Whatever, he wanted his essays to show Chinese sentiment. Moreover, he created a unique writing style because he understood the English essays deeply and knew the Chinese reader.The most valuable thing is that he can make the common thing in the life that people pay no attention to into a masterpiece. He always wrote many articles to enlighten the people. From a new point of view, he talked about the old ideas. In his essays, he wrote about different things. By the way of comparing and contrastanding, he analyzed them, showing a sense of humour. So his essays were interesting and funny. And Yuchun Liang was a good writer.Profoundly, the English essay affected Liang's essay. To a certain extent, English essays translated by Liang showed the character of English essay and Liang' favour and selection. We will compare Liang's essays with his translation and analyze English essays translated by Liang how to influence Liang's essays in this thesis.