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Finding the Hidden Truth: A Study on Xu Zhimo's ‘Ba Bao xiang’ Mistery

Lee Kyung Ha 1

1덕성여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The more we study on Xu Zhimo, the more we are fascinated by his whole life story because new stories continuously have appeared. After Xu Zhimo died in the mid-thirties due to an accident, people blamed Lu Xiaoman for their unhappy marriage and put a fame fatale image on her. However, there was another woman who influenced on Xu Zhimo’s life besides Lin Huiyin and Lu Xiaoman. Ling Shuhua was the woman. Ling Shuhua and Xu Zhimo shared a friendship that transcended their sexual difference. When Xu Zhimo had a difficult time because the romance with Lu Xiaoman, he decided to go Europe after Rabindarnath Tagore sent a letter him, which Tagore hoped to meet him. Before going Europe, he left many private materials including diary, letters and etc to Ling Shuhua, one of his friends. However after he died suddenly, disputes between his close friends around Xu Zhimo's storage box, ‘Ba Bao Xiang’. The example of disputes was the trouble between Ling Shuhua and Lin Huiyin. This trouble was resolved by Hushi, but, Ling Shuhua and Lin Huiyin had bad feelings to each other due to this problem. Indeed, what was the truth of mystery of ‘Ba Bao Xiang’? It is very difficult to find the truth because the related persons are dead and because the records on ‘Ba Bao Xiang’ were differently interpreted according to their own positions. However, we intend to meticulously study the cause and process of accidents through diaries and letters which were written by Xu Zhimo, Ling Shuhua, Lin Huiyin and Hushi. Since this study can let us face these writers as ordinary persons not literary persons, we will also have an opportunity to understand the inner world of the writers.

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