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Marcela de Juan/黃瑪賽: 20th Century China Through the Eyes of a Eurasian Woman

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Marcela de Juan, whose Chinese name is Huáng măsài 黃瑪賽, was born in Havana in 1905 of a Chinese father and a Belgian mother. She lived first in Madrid until she was eight, then in Beijing until she was twenty-three. She eventually returned to Madrid, where she made a career as a translator and devoted her life to bringing Chinese literature and culture to the Spanish public. In 1977, she published her memoirs entitled “La China que ayer viví y la China que hoy entreví”, reflecting on her double experience of Beijing, one in childhood and adolescence, and the other on her reunion with China forty-seven years later. This book is doubly comparative in that it compares not only two cultures, by bringing Spanish and Chinese customs into dialogue, but also two visions of China, each corresponding to pivotal moments such as the birth of the Chinese republic or the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Although this work was republished in 2021, it remains neglected in the field of research. The aim of this paper is to explore Marcela de Juan's unique vision of this constantly evolving China, and to bring it to the attention of the Spanish public. Spanning the 20th century, Marcela de Juan is a privileged witness to the political history and the daily life in which she was immersed as a result of her dual Spanish and Chinese identity. We therefore propose to analyze the Sino-Hispanic synergies present in the autobiographical work of Marcela de Juan, this go-between from East to West.
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Oriane Chevalier. Marcela de Juan/黃瑪賽: 20th Century China Through the Eyes of a Eurasian Woman. Annual Meeting - Reimagining Asian-Hispanic Synergies in Literature, Culture, and Film, ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association); Miaowei Weng, Mar 2024, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Canada. ⟨hal-04518605⟩
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