Ambassadors Visit Museum of Modern Chinese LiteratureForeign ambassadors and representatives from some twenty foreign countries and international organizations on Nov.14 visited the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature to familiarize themselves with the development of modern Chinese literature in China's past and present.The ambassadors were first greeted with a small badge in the form of a comma. As a symbol of the Museum, it reiterates the fact that commas began to be adopted by Chinese writers to harbinger modern Chinese literature's advent in China's modern history. There will be no completion to modern Chinese literature and it will be greatly developed in the 21st century and into an infinite bright future. China is a large country honored with a long history for poetry and essay writing. Nonetheless, back in history it had borrowed and transplanted Occidental literary ideas and theories in novel and play writing as use of punctuation marks into writings of modern Chinese literature, said Wu Fuhui, deputy head of the Museum."The credit must go to many renowned Chinese writers, such as Lu Xun, Guo Moruo and Hu Shi, as returned students from abroad" he added. Being the world biggest museum of its kind, the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature has been built over an area of 15,000 square meters, with a collection of as many as 300,000 literary works and a total of separate 70 studies in honor of the writers' works. As following a suggestion made by Ba Jin, a highly respected Chinese writer, and approved by President Jiang Zemin, the Museum was launched and opened to the public three months ago. During their happy visit in the Museum, the foreign ambassadors were surprised to see an important place Chinese literature has enjoyed in China. In the coming three days, it is reported, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs will extend invitations to an increased number of foreign ambassadors on a visit to the Museum. |
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