作者簡介

Tsi-an Hsia

　　Tsi-an Hsia (1916–1965)，was Professor of English at National Taiwan University from 1950 to 1959。 Until his premature death in 1965，he had held research positions at the University of California (Berkeley) and the University of Washington (Seattle)。

　　The Gate of Darkness is a scholarly work that required years of extensive research，but it is also a book that could not have been written by someone less vitally concerned with the fate of China。 Born in 1916，Tsi-an Hsia was umbilically tied to the hopes and aspirations of the May Fourth generation。 In turning to a study of his immediate literary heritage，he was driven by the desire to recapture the historical reality of an earlier period in all its tragic complexity。