A fundamental analysis of the development of the 'familiar essay', focusing on articles from literature magazines of the 1920s and the work and ideas Zhou Zuoren(周作人)

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The purpose of this study is to elucidate one aspect of the familiar essay': its development from the period following the peak of the May Fourth Movement to the height of the genre's popularity in the 1930s. This research also introduces the work of Xia Mianzun(夏丐尊), who is often credited with the introduction of the familiar essay for composition education in junior high school. Here, it is argued that he in fact imported the concept of the familiar essay from Japan in the first half of 1920s.