Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980) was a Czech sinologist. He was considered as the founder of the Prague School of Sinology.[1] He trained as an historian, with an interest in the history of ancient Greece, Byzantium and Roman Empire at Charles University. After graduating from Charles University, he went to Germany and Sweden and became the student of Bernard Karlgren. He was sent to China and Japan in the 1930s, where he became friends with many Chinese intellectuals, including Lu Xun.[2] He went back to Czechoslovakia in 1937.[3][4] In 1952, he was appointed head of Institute of East Asian Studies of Charles University.[5]
| Chinese name | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 普實克 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 普实克 | ||||||||
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He was a pioneer in a range of topics ranging from Song dynasty vernacular literature and modern Chinese literature. He lived in what Leo Ou-fan Lee called "the era of giants."[6]
Selected works
editBooks
edit- Dictionary of Oriental Literature
- The lyrical and the epic: studies of modern Chinese literature
- Chinese history and literature: collection of studies
- Chinese states and the northern barbarians in the period 1400-300 B.C
- The origins and the authors of the hua-pen
- Die Literatur des befreiten China und ihre Volkstraditionen
- Études d'histoire et de littérature chinoises offertes au professeur Jaroslav Průšek
- My sister China, His memoir about his experiences in China.
- Three sketches of Chinese literature [7]
Articles
edit- —— (1961). "Basic Problems of the History of Modern Chinese Literature and C. T. Hsia, History of Modern Chinese Fiction". T'oung Pao. 49 (4): 357–404. doi:10.1163/156853262X00129. JSTOR 4527525.
References and further reading
edit- Gálik, Marián (1998). "Jaroslav Prùsek: A Myth and Reality as Seen by His Pupil" (PDF). Asian and African Studies. 2: 151–161.
- Lee, Leo Ou-fan (2017), "Tribute To Jaroslav PruŠek (1906–1980): Unpacking Prùsek'sConception Of The "Lyrical": A Tribute And Some Intercultural Reflections" (PDF), Philologica, 4: 151–166, doi:10.14712/24646830.2017.46
- -- , "The Legacies of Jaroslav Průšek and C.T.Hsia," in David Der-wei Wang, ed., New Literary History of Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017), pp. 644- 650,
- Xiaoqing Diana Lin, "Jaroslav Průšek: Communism, Modernization, and Chinese Literary Studies During the Cold War, 1950s−1960s," in Michael Brose and Antonina Luszczykiewicz eds., Sinology During the Cold War (Abingdon, Oxon.; NY: Routledge; 2022),
- Lomová, Olga (2021). "Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980): A Man of His Time and Place". The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies. 2: 169–196. doi:10.25365/jeacs.2021.2.169-196. Open access online, includes extensive bibliography.
Notes
edit- ^ http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/kampen/eacs_scholars_in_mem_prusek.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Jaroslav Průšek and Lu Xun（普实克与鲁迅）". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ 捷克斯洛伐克汉学家雅罗斯拉夫·普实克
- ^ 陈国球:如何了解“汉学家”──以普实克为例
- ^ The Current State of Chinese Studies in the Czech Republic—Research on Mongolia and Tibet
- ^ Lomová (2021), p. 170--171.
- ^ search results at worldcat.org
External links
edit- Lomová, Olga (21 September 2020), European Dream about Chinese Poetry in Sinological Research: The Cases of Vasiliv Alekseyev (1881–1951) and Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980), Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Podcast of a talk exploring how much preconceived notions about Chinese poetry conditioned their understanding of Chinese literature, and to what extent they helped them arrive at a breakthrough in Chinese literature studies.