The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1065

   Zhou Hexuan (March 17, 1898-August 8, 2015), courtesy name Mingcheng, was born in Hebei, grew up in Nanyang, and swam in Western.

Chinese modern and contemporary famous writers, historians, musicians, political commentators, calligraphers, orators, educators, diplomats, philanthropists, inventors, collectors, cartoonists, anthropologists, sociologists, linguistics Home, patriotic newspaperman, red capitalist. Author of novels “Black Soil”, “Goddess”, novella “Man City”, poem “Praise”, historical monographs “Rise of Great Powers”, “Guns, Bacteria and Steel” and other works.

【Basic Information】

   Chinese name: Zhou Hexuan

   English name: Charles Chou

Nationality: Chinese

   Nationality: Han

  Birthplace: Hebei

   Date of Birth: 1898

  Date of death: 2015

   Occupation: Writer, historian

   Known as: Far Eastern Sorcerer

  【Character Life】

early life–

   On March 17, 1898, Zhou Hexuan was born into a rural gentry family in Hebei.

  In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, and the Zhou family was destroyed in the war. Zhou Hexuan went to Malaya with his parents to go to his distant uncle.

  In 1906, the Malayan indigenous riots killed Zhou Hexuan’s parents and uncle.

   From 1906 to 1908, the young Zhou Hexuan could only survive by begging and stealing.

   In 1908, Zhou Hexuan was taken in by an American missionary and went to the United States with him. After the missionary’s death, Zhou Hexuan wandered in various states in the United States, often disguised as an Asian student and infiltrated American colleges and universities.

   In 1918, the 20-year-old Zhou Hexuan traveled to Europe, traveled to more than ten countries in Europe, and mastered many languages.

   In 1925, Zhou Hexuan went to Japan by boat and returned to China half a year later.

  The situation of the Republic of China——

   In 1926, Zhou Hexuan settled in Tianjin.

   In April, Zhou Hexuan serialized “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” in the “New Tianjin Evening News” under the pseudonym “Jin Yong”, creating a precedent for modern martial arts novels. The sequels include “The Legend of Condor Heroes” and “Eternal Dragon Slayer”, which are also called “The Condor Trilogy”. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, everyone scrambled to pass it on, and for a time, “Luoyang paper is expensive”. Because the serialization speed was too slow, the warlord Chu Yupu put Zhou Hexuan under house arrest, urged him to change by force, and admired his talent, and recruited Zhou Hexuan as a foreign secretary.

In May, Zhou Hexuan began to create the historical masterpiece “Rise of Great Powers”, which was serialized in “Linxi Newspaper” and “Beijing-Tianjin Times”. The development of international historical research.

   In June, with the support of Zhang Xueliang, Zhou Hexuan invited Hu Zhengzhi and Zhang Jiluan to re-run the Ta Kung Pao, and proposed the eight-character policy of running a newspaper with “no party, no selling, no selfishness, and no blindness”.

In July, Zhou Hexuan, together with Zhang Xueliang and Feng Yong, founded the “China Hope Education Foundation”. Over the past few decades, more than 600 “Hope Primary Schools” have been built in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, Hong Kong and other places. Development has contributed enormously. At the end of the same month, Zhou Hexuan gave a speech “I have a dream” on the train, which caused a sensation across the country and inspired generations of passionate young people to work hard for the prosperity of the country.

   In September, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated by the reactionary warlord Chu Yufeng and was shot and injured, but survived.

  In October, Zhou Hexuan’s literary masterpiece “Goddess” was serialized in “Fiction Monthly”, which caused a sensation in the world literary circles. “Goddess”, “God Official” and “God Official’s Biography” are also called “Magic Trilogy”, creating a trend of “magic realism”, known as “the peak of May Fourth novels on new literary issues” and “New Literary Movement”. The final work of “the beginning of the wave of magical realism in the world”, which will have a profound impact on the traditional literature of the East and the West for decades to come.

   In November, Zhang Zuolin sent troops to surround Peking University, and professors resigned and went south. Zhou Hexuan was ordered to serve as the president of Peking University, and he used his personal savings to pay the salaries of the faculty and staff. He joined the professors of Peking University and Tsinghua University to form a “Chinese University Textbook Compilation Group” to compile a series of science and engineering textbooks in line with China’s reality.

   In February 1927, Zhou Hexuan responded to the vigorous women’s **** movement and improved women’s underwear. After decades of development, “Mei Kou” underwear has become an international well-known brand, sharing the eastern and western markets with the “Victoria’s Secret” series.

   In May of the year, there was a major disaster in Shandong. Zhou Hexuan founded the charity organization “Jiminhui” in Tianjin, and went to the disaster area to carry out disaster relief activities. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is a famous philanthropist in modern and contemporary my country. For decades, he has provided relief to the victims, helped the poor, and donated to the country. The assets he donated are innumerable. “Zhou Hexuansheng Temple” appeared in Sichuan in the 1990s.

  In March 1928, the masterpiece of historical anthropology “Guns, Bacteria and Steel” came out, and was later selected as a textbook by hundreds of universities around the world. Zhou Hexuan was known as “the founder of historical anthropology”. French historian Lucien Feffer considered Zhou Hexuan to be the leader of the “Yearbook School”, he bluntly stated in the “Yearbook” magazine: “The Rise of Great Powers and Guns, Bacteria and Steel undoubtedly lead the world historiography. Research trends, like a beacon in the vast ocean, guide the direction of world history. Mr. Zhou Hexuan is undoubtedly the greatest historian, anthropologist and sociologist in the world today, and his works are irreplaceable and groundbreaking. .”

   In April, he founded China Broadcasting Station. Zhou Hexuan personally anchored “Gossip at 7:00 PM”, praised and criticized current affairs and commented on celebrities. People of the time called it “Electrical Essays”, creating a precedent for TV and radio interview programs in my country.

   In May, Zhou Hexuan moved into Tianjin Sanletang.

   In June, “Chrysanthemum and the Knife” was published, and in the same month, Dai Jitao published “On Japan”.

  In September, Zhou Hexuan was invited by Luo Jialun to give a lecture on “History of Human Civilization” at Tsinghua University. This book was later published jointly with the British historian Toynbee, namely “Research on History”, which broke the Western-centrism and the single-line historical view of historical development, and has a high position in the works of Eastern and Western philosophy of history.

   In April 1929, Zhou Hexuan was invited to serve as the deputy director of Tianjin Martial Arts Museum. In June, Zhou Hexuan and Lu Xun met by chance in Tianjin, and the two went to Peiping together and had a great conversation.

   In October, Zhou Hexuan joined “Wuzhou Hongmen” and “Zhi Gong Dang” as “Hongmen Xinfu”. In the same month, “Goddess” won the French Goncourt Literary Award, and Zhou Hexuan became the first Asian to win this award.

   In November, Zhou Hexuan invested in the construction of the “cemetery of Chinese workers who aided France in World War I”, which aroused the French society’s attention to the Chinese workers.

  In January 1930, Zhou Hexuan met with Einstein and proposed a famous experiment in the field of quantum physics – Zhou Hexuan’s cat.

   In February, “Titanic” was published in the United States and became popular in the United States. The novel was adapted into a film twice, and both won the global box office champion of the year.

   In March, Zhou Hexuan founded the Study Abroad Foundation. In the past 20 years, it has funded more than 600 students to study in Europe and the United States, including the “Father and Child of Chinese Cloning”.

  In April, the Pulitzer Prize for History appeared vacant for the first time because the two final judges opposed the award for Guns, Germs and Steel.

   In March 1930, “General History of the World” was published, redefining world history. The book has been set as a textbook by hundreds of universities at home and abroad, and the “global view of history” has been widely disseminated and has far-reaching influence on the international political relations of later generations.

  In September 1931, Zhou Hexuan, together with teachers and students in Peking, developed a method for making grenades. This set of manufacturing equipment was named “Seven People’s Backs”. From 1931 to 1945, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the “Seven People’s Backs” were active in the vast frontal battlefield and the battlefield behind the enemy, causing great casualties to the Japanese invaders. In October, Zhou Hexuan began to publish a large number of international and domestic current affairs comments. These articles were all included in the “San Le Tang Anthology”, which is an important document for the study of the history before and after World War II.

   In May 1932, Zhou Hexuan was invited to participate in the International Non-War Conference, initiated the establishment of the “International Anti-French Alliance”, and then founded the “African Attack” magazine in China. By the end of World War II, the alliance has developed more than 200,000 official members. In August, Zhou Hexuan founded “Cognitive Linguistics”, and on this basis formed the “London School”, “Paris School” and “New York School” in linguistics. In the same month, he participated in the discovery of the medical value of sulfanilamide and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939. In September, “Legend of the Galactic Heroes” was serialized in the British “School of Science” magazine, which influenced the creation of science fiction literature from generation to generation.

   In July 1933, “Black Earth” was serialized in “Fei Gong” magazine. The book is a magnificent Northeast epic, showing the social changes in the modern Northeast for more than half a century, and it is a monument in the history of Chinese literature.

  In 1934, when the “Silver Crisis” broke out in China, Zhou Hexuan lobbied in the United States and the United Kingdom, which greatly helped the National Government to carry out currency reform. During this period, he founded a private flying club in the United States and trained a large number of aviation personnel for the Anti-Japanese War.

  In April 1935, he invested in the construction of my country’s first bridge across the Yangtze River “Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge”. In May, he co-founded Li Bao with Zhang Henshui and Cheng She Wo.

   In October, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated in London by a Japanese student. A year later, Zhou Hexuan was assassinated again, and the Japanese government wanted to get rid of it.

   In 1936, Zhou Hexuan and Wang Zhengting led Chinese athletes to compete in the Berlin Olympics and achieved good results with 6 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes. The athletes broke world records many times. In July of the same year, Zhou Hexuan moved to Chongqing, spending huge sums of money to help the victims in Sichuan. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

   Years of Anti-Japanese War——

   At the time of national crisis, Zhou Hexuan stepped forward and sent envoys to the United States and the United Kingdom successively to help the National Government negotiate a “Tung Oil Loan”, so that the closed Yunnan-Myanmar Highway could be opened ahead of schedule. He also donated nearly 100 aircraft at one time, was awarded the “Lion-awakening Sword of Honor”, and served as the vice chairman of the China Aviation Committee.

  From 1936 to 1937, Zhou Hexuan vigorously built factories and mines to provide many materials and commodities for the rear. Among them, the pharmaceutical factory built in Hechuan County supplied a large amount of medicines to the military and civilians every year, and contributed enormously to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

   In 1938, Zhou Hexuan collected and sorted out a large amount of information, and co-edited “Nanjing Massacre” with Rabe. After the end of World War II, these materials were submitted to the Tokyo International Court of Justice as important evidence for the trial of Japanese war criminals.

   In 1939, the Southwest Associated University was faced with many difficulties. Zhou Hexuan donated a lot of materials and invented the scientific method of raising chickens. This method was quickly extended to the whole country and even the world, and it has been used in small and medium-sized chicken farms in the 21st century.

   In the same year, the Anti-Japanese War comic “Captain China” began serialization, which was the first of its kind in China.

   In 1941, Zhou Hexuan personally went to Dunhuang to prevent Zhang Daqian from destroying the frescoes and preserved a large number of fresco treasures for our country.

   In 1942, “The Little Prince” was published, which became the best-selling literary work in the world.

   In 1943, Zhou Hexuan wrote the novella “Renshi”, and was placed under house arrest for half a year for reflecting the tragic situation of the disaster victims in Henan and exposing the dark rule of the Kuomintang. While under house arrest, Zhou Hexuan published the historical monograph “The Fifteen Years of Wanli”, which became a classic in Ming history research. In the same year, Zhou Hexuan and Needham co-founded the “Sino-British Science Cooperation Museum”, which promoted the connection between China and the world academia during the war, and provided a large number of documents and scientific equipment for the Chinese academia.

  Hong Kong Times——

   In 1945, Zhou Hexuan bought the hilltop villa in Hong Kong and settled here with his family the following year. He cooperated with his father-in-law Zhang Mouzhi to buy land and build a factory in Hong Kong, laying a solid industrial and commercial foundation.

   In 1946, Zhou Hexuan secretly donated mainland assets to our party, and took advantage of the breakup of the Japanese consortium to invest in dozens of Japanese companies in one go.

   In 1947, Zhou Hexuan was awarded the title of Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was awarded the Order of the Garter by King George VI of the United Kingdom.

  In the 1950s, the Korean War broke out, and the British Hong Kong government imposed an embargo on the mainland. Zhou Hexuan secretly smuggled and transported materials for New China for 26 years, and was praised by the central leadership as “a close comrade-in-arms of our party”.

   In 1954, the film library of Hong Kong Yonghua Film Company caught fire and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhou Hexuan invested 1 million yuan to buy 90% of the shares, and personally wrote the script “A Chinese Ghost Story”, which broke the box office record of Hong Kong films. Zhou Hexuan has since entered the film and television industry and founded Hong Kong TVB in the 1970s.

   From the 1950s to the 1970s, a crisis broke out in the American film industry. Zhou Hexuan bought Lianmei Pictures and MGM Pictures one after another, and formed the “MGM-Lianmei Film Company”, which was managed by Vivien Leigh.

  In the 1980s, Zhou Hexuan founded the “Ultimate Fighting Championship” (UFC), which has been popular all over the world for more than 30 years and is known as the “father of mixed martial arts”.

   In 1981, Zhou Hexuan was invited to return to the mainland to invest in the fields of finance, real estate, manufacturing, tourism, shipping, and the Internet.

take a bow–

   On August 8, 2015, at ten o’clock in the evening, Zhou Hexuan passed away safely at the age of 117.

  【Character anecdote】

  About Music——

   Zhou Hexuan is recognized as the “Father of Rock and Roll”, who wrote the world’s first rock song during World War II. He has also created well-known and excellent songs such as “On the Songhua River”, “Hongyan”, “The Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles”, “My Motherland”, “My Heart Will Eternal” and so on.

  About opera——

   Zhou Hexuan has a deep research on Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera, and co-created the classic Peking Opera piece “Mrs. Huarui” with Li Shoumin.

   About Poetry——

   Zhou Hexuan is the originator of modern Chinese poetry. His representative works include “A Generation”, “Answer”, “I Love This Land”, “Praise” and other classic chapters.

  About invention——

   Zhou Hexuan once improved women’s underwear, invented the human-powered rice harvester, invented the “seven-person back” grenade maker, and so on.

  Feminist Movement——

   Zhou Hexuan once proposed the “grandmother doctrine” during the Northern Expedition, calling on women to open their chests, and put forward the four-character principle of “self-respect, self-improvement, self-love, and self-reliance”, which was absorbed by Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls’ School as the second school motto.

   Xiang Rune Club——

  The poet Xu Zhimo was once troubled by love and became a monk at Xiangfu Temple. Zhou Hexuan cleverly used his strategies to create the most sensational literary event in the Republic of China era.

   Wisdom Stick——

   The demon Liu Congyun propagated superstitions in Sichuan, taking the opportunity to make money, and countless people went bankrupt. Zhou Hexuan printed the “Life-saving Talisman” in batches, which broke Liu Congyun’s prestige and executed him at a public trial.

  Celebrity Calligraphy and Painting Reaper——

   Zhou Hexuan has a well-known hobby, that is, collecting famous calligraphy and paintings. From scholars and celebrities to warlords and politicians, Zhou Hexuan collected more than 300 paintings and calligraphy of famous people of the Republic of China in his lifetime, all of which are hidden in the “Mingcheng Museum”.

  【Spouse】

  Zhang Leyi: The daughter of the Zhang family, she is a beautiful woman, and she has been in charge of China Broadcasting Station and Hong Kong TVB.

  Meng Xiaodong: A famous actor in Peking Opera, a disciple of Yu Shuyan, known as “Winter Emperor”.

  Guo Wanrong: Former Empress of Qing Dynasty, famous female painter.

  Liao Yaquan: Female entrepreneur, who has a large number of industries in Japan.

  Yu Peichen: An underground party member, after being famous, he was in charge of Hong Kong’s “Ta Kung Pao” in his later years.

   Ruan Lingyu: Famous movie star, film queen of the Republic of China.

  Zhou Xuan: Famous singer, known as “Golden Voice”.

  Ma Jue: Peking University’s flower, daughter of Ma Yuzao, Ph.D., School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

  Cui Huifu: a famous lady in the Republic of China, proficient in rhythm, painting, embroidery, and Lu Bicheng, also known as “Tianjin Two Talented Women”.

  Vivien Leigh: Famous Hollywood movie star, served as the president of MGM in the 1970s.

  【Children】

   Eldest son: Zhou Weilie (born by Zhang Leyi), mathematician, computer expert, Internet expert, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  Second son: Zhou Shuoming (born by Wanrong), a famous Hong Kong movie star.

  Three sons: Zhou Yangxuan (born of Liao Yaquan), an entrepreneur who lives in Japan all the year round.

   Four sons: Zhou Guoxing (born by Liao Yaquan), a fighter, who has been in charge of UFC events for more than 20 years.

   Five sons: Zhou Shengguang (born by Zhang Leyi), entrepreneur, real estate king in Hong Kong and king of manufacturing.

   Six sons: Zhou Deyang (born of Zhou Xuan), an entrepreneur, who lives in the United States all the year round.

  Seven sons: Zhou Zhenyi (born by Zhou Xuan), entrepreneur, Chinese Internet giant.

  Eight sons: Zhou Weiyu (born by Ma Jue), a politician, has been naturalized in Singapore.

   Nine sons: Zhou Zhanghua (born by Yu Peichen), entrepreneur, Hong Kong film and television media tycoon.

   Eldest daughter: Zhou Lingjun (born by Meng Xiaodong), writer, painter, calligrapher, musician, doctor of the Royal Academy of Arts.

  Second daughter: Zhou Chunxi (born of Vivien Leigh), Queen of Medicine of England, Queen of Belgium.

  Three daughters: Zhou Nan (born by Yu Peichen), fashion designer, owner of the brand “Meiko”.

   Four daughters: Zhou Ning (born by Yu Peichen), a dancer, has been naturalized in the United States.

  Five daughters: Zhou Tong (born by Wanrong), a cartoonist, a master of Japanese girl cartoons.

   Six daughters: Zhou Qingyi (born of Ruan Lingyu), writer, actor, director, producer.

   Seven daughters: Zhou Xinyan (born by Zhou Xuan), singer, Asian queen.