The 20th century witnessed two Chinese translation booms of the Hungarian writer Mór Jókai’s work. In order to have a better understanding of Jókai in China, this paper focuses on the Chinese ...translation of Jókai’s work, providing an overview of its history, and offers insights into the socio-cultural context of the translation, the features of Jókai’s writing highlighted in translation, and the Chinese understanding of his literary world. It will be shown that the Chinese translation of Jókai’s work in the 20th century was almost always dominated by political discourse: in the early 20th century it was “the literature of marginalized nationalities,” and in the second half of the century “the literature of socialist countries.” While the readers in the earlier period inserted modern China’s national consciousness into their interpretation of the writer, who therefore appeared as strangely familiar to them, the readers in the later period were under the influence of socialist ideology, thus distinguishing themselves from the writer, who was regarded as a bourgeois novelist. For the latter, they not only constantly warned themselves of his idealist parochialism but also thought of him as a tragic Rousseau/Owen-style utopian.
The Baradlay-Palvicz duel is well-known from the novel by Mór Jókai. The Sebő-Riedesel duel from Hungarian history is less known, however the great story-teller commemorates this event with an ...eternal literary remembrance, the fictional duel of the Son of the Heartless Man. We remember this event at the border of Tápióbicske with locals, a historian and an art historian.
Original language summary:
A Baradlay-Palvicz párbaj Jókai Mór regényéből közismert. A Sebő-Riedesel a magyar történelemből már kevésbé, bár a Kőszívű ember fiának párbajával ennek állít örök irodalmi emléket a nagy mesemondó. Tápióbicske határában a falu hagyományőrzőivel, a történésszel és az irodalomtörténésszel erre emlékezünk mi is.
One of the best known cavalry soldiers of world history. The name "hussar" as a cavalry soldier goes back to 1458, to the era of King Matthias, when according to the king's will, every twenty ...households had to present one cavalry soldier.
Original language summary:
A világtörténelem egyik legismertebb lovas katonája. A huszár, mint lovas katona neve 1458-ra, Mátyás király korába nyúlik vissza, amikor a király rendelkezése szerint húsz telkenként egy lovas katona kiállítására kötelezte alattvalóit.
Extended description:
By providing a historical overview of the Balkan origins, economic activities and assimilation of the Macedo-Vlachs („Greeks”) living in the Hungarian Kingdom from the 17th ...century and also of their contribution to culture, sciences and education, the programme aims to present the rich Greek heritage in Budapest. György Sina, the trustee of István Széchenyi, contributed financially to the construction of the Chain Bridge, the first permanent connection across the Danube between Buda and Pest. His son, Simon bequeathed money to the construction of the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Emanuil Gojdu (Gozsdu Manó in Hungarian) in his will left his wealth to "the Romanian Orthodox people of Hungary and Transylvania". The Gojdu (Gozsdu) Foundation awarded thousands of scholarships to the Romanian Greek Orthodox students living in Hungary and Transylvania between 1870 and 1917.
The programme aims to present the rich Greek heritage in Budapest. The film makes particular reference to the donation practices of the members of the immeasurably wealthy Sina, Nakosz (Nákó) and Gojdu (Gozsdu) families.
Original language summary:
A film a reformkori és a kiegyezés utáni fellendülés meghatározó mecénásainak, Sina Györgynek és fiának, Simonnak, a Nákó családnak és Gozsdu Manónak állít emléket, akik támogatták – többek között – a Lánchíd megépítését, a Ludovica és a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia létrehozását.
Extended description:
By providing a historical overview of the Balkan origins, economic activities and assimilation of the Macedo-Vlachs („Greeks”) living in the Hungarian Kingdom from the 17th century and also of their contribution to culture, sciences and education, the programme aims to present the rich Greek heritage in Budapest. György Sina, the trustee of István Széchenyi, contributed financially to the construction of the Chain Bridge, the first permanent connection across the Danube between Buda and Pest. His son, Simon bequeathed money to the construction of the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Emanuil Gojdu (Gozsdu Manó in Hungarian) in his will left his wealth to "the Romanian Orthodox people of Hungary and Transylvania". The Gojdu (Gozsdu) Foundation awarded thousands of scholarships to the Romanian Greek Orthodox students living in Hungary and Transylvania between 1870 and 1917.
