The Author of a Novel 'Tung-ou nü-hao-chieh (東欧女豪傑)

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  • 小説「東欧女豪傑」の作者
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‘Tung-ou nü-hao-chieh’ published in 1902-03, is one of the earliest works of Chinese literature which relates, though rather remotely, to anarchism. The most striking feature of this uncompleted novel is that its major characters are the historical figures in the Russian revolutionary movements of 1870s. They are especially the members of a group who formed in late 1870s an organization known as ‘narodnaya volya’; for instance, Sophia Perovskaya, Andrey Zhelyabov, Vera Figner, Stepan Khalturin, Alexander Solovyev, all of whom took part in various attempts against Alexander II’s life.The author of this novel used a pen-name Yü-i nü-shi (羽衣女士). A-ying (阿英-錢杏邨) believes that this pen-name was that of Chang Chu-chün (張竹君) while Feng Tzu-yu (馮自由) states that Lo P’u (羅普) wrote the novel.Chang Chu-chün, a woman doctor, who was trained by Dr. John Kerr of Canton, was a pioneer in the women’s movement of China. During the first decade of this century she vigorously advocated the cause of the betterment of women’s position in society. She put forward a unique argument on this subject. In practice, she rendered distinguished services in medical and vocational training for women. In the 1911 revolution, she took the initiative in Red Cross activities with her own volunteer Red Cross Society. It is not altogether impossible that she was the author.A closer look at the novel, however, reveals that the author seems to have been closely associated with Liang Ch’i-ch’ao(梁啓超). It is also apparent that the author obtained most of the information about the Russian revolutionists from Kemuyama Sentaro’s (煙山専太郎) Kinsei museifushugi (近世無政府主義). In this respect, it is more likely that Lo P’u, who was an intimate friend of Liang Ch’i-ch’ao and a student of the Waseda University, which published Kemuyama’s book in 1902, was the author of this novel.

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