Sheng, Ning

Sheng, Ning. Guan yu Wu'erfu de 1910 [ID D31611].
Sheng Ning's essay offers a third discussion of Woolf's theory of fiction, investigating the reasons of Woolf's choice of time and rectifying the translation and interpretation of Woolf's diction 'human character'. 'Woolf's particular choice of the year and the month is the exhibition of the post-impressionist paintings organized by Woolf's friends Rogert Fry and Desmond MacCarthy'. Sheng claims, that Woolf sees the new artistic perception conveyed by this Post-Impressionist show as demonstrating an era-breaking change of self-understanding. Sheng holds that the most important idea Woolf wants to express in 'Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown' is that 'here is a character imposing itself upon another person. Hereis Mrs. Brown making someone begin almost automatically to write a novel about her'. Sheng concludes that 'what Woolf means is that on or about December 1910 the image of character changed.

Sheng, Ning ; Stauffer, Donald Barlow. The influence of Edgar Allen Poe on modern Chinese literature. In : The University of Mississippi studies in English ; N.S., vol. 3 (1982).[This article is adapted from the M.A. thesis by Mr. Sheng Ning for the Department of Western Languages and Literature of Peking University in 1981].

[Hershatter, Gail]. Wei xian de yu yue : 20 shi ji Shanghai de chang ji wen ti yu xian dai xing. Hexiao zhu ; Han Minzhong, Sheng Ning yi. (Nanjing : Jiangsu ren min chu ban she, 2003). (Hai wai Zhongguo yan jiu cong shu. Nü xing xi lie). Übersetzung von Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997).
危险的愉悦 : 20世纪上海的娼妓问题与现代性