An Analysis Of Romain Rolland's Reception In China

Through plentiful materials and solid literatures, the thesis studies diachronically the changing point of view of Chinese critics on the famous writer Romain Rolland from 1916 to the present and examines the related political factors, background of age and poetic factors. In addition, the thesis tries to portray the reception history of the novel Jean Christophe, and explores the reason why this novel experienced such zigzag periods: from the high praise period to the partial skepticism period to the total opposition period, and then returned to the appreciation period.The thesis concludes three parts: introduction, main body and the conclusion. The introduction briefly describes the academic research of Romain Rolland in china, introduces the research thought, and the value of this thesis.The main body concludes four parts. The first part shows the whole translation history of Romain Rolland's works, concludes the characteristics of each period, and introduce several contributed translators.The second and third parts show the history of academic research and analyzes different reception features of Romain Rolland in different periods: the period of The Repubic of China, the periond between 1949 and 1978; the period between 1978 and the present.The fourth part concludes the five reception characteristics of Romain Rolland, shows the contrary interpretations about the end of Jean Christophe and the image of Jean Christophe, and analyzes the related social and cultural factors.The conclusion summarizes the cultural philosophical significance of Romain Rolland,points out the pity of the reception and the realm to be explored, and expects that critics activate the value of work of Romain Rolland again under the new academic era.