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Before a funeral, an obituary notice fùwén (訃聞) is commonly sent to relatives and friends announcing the date and time of the funeral procession. [3] The date is usually selected as an auspicious one according to the Chinese fortune calendar (通勝 tōng shèng).
American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2]
Wang Anyi (born 6 March 1954) is a Chinese writer, [1] vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006, and professor in Chinese Literature at Fudan University since 2004. Wang widely writes novels, novellas, short stories and essays with diverse themes and topics.
Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian (January 28, 1915 – November 2, 2009) was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan [1] (Chinese: 姚念媛; pinyin: Yáo Niànyuán). [2] She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.
Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States.Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, [1] [2] the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End, [3] and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose. [4]
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .
Kanbun, literally "Chinese writing," refers to a genre of techniques for making Chinese texts read like Japanese, or for writing in a way imitative of Chinese. For a Japanese, neither of these tasks could be accomplished easily because of the two languages' different structures. As I have mentioned, Chinese is an isolating language.
Lin Huiyin (Chinese: 林徽因, born 林徽音; pinyin: Lín Huīyīn; 10 June 1904 – 1 April 1955; known as Phyllis Whei Yin Lin [1] when studying in the United States) was a Chinese architect, writer, and poet. She is known to be the first female architect in modern China. [2]