Harold Acton Timeline
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born at Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy.his brother William is born in Chicagoresident, with his brother William, in London at 108 Lancaster Gatearrives in China. Harold Acton is invited by Zhang Xinhai (张歆海) to teach English Literature at Peking University and he meets Wen Yuanning (温源宁), the director of the School of Foreign Languages at the University. He gets to know Chen Shixiang (陈世骧) who graduates from Peking University in 1932, and later becomes a teacher there.follows Chen Shixiang’s suggestion that he continue teaching in Peking University. After Wen Yuanning’s resignation, Hu Shi, the Dean of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, allows Acton to continue teaching once a week for half a semester. He is remembered as the first person who introduced T. S. Eliot to Chinese students.Hu Shi invites Acton to teach Keats, Shakespeare, poetry from The Golden Treasury, and two English Writing courses for the first half of the semester“T’ien Hsia Monthly” publishes Acton’s “The Creative Spirit in Modern Chinese Literature”together with Chen Shixiang (who starts teaching at Peking University in this year) Acton publishes Modern Chinese Poetry. The book includes poetry by many important writers including Zhou Zuoren (周作人), Xu Zhimo (徐志摩), Guo Moruo (郭沫若), Bian Zhilin (卞之琳). This is the first time that the poems written in the new style - simplified Chinese within the “New Poetry” movement - are translated into English.publishes his Famous Chinese Plays in Peking.leaves China in June because of the Second Sino-Japanese War, never to returnin May joins the Royal Air Force (British) and sails to Egypt in 1942. He is then posted to New Delhi and Calcutta until May 1944.death of his brother William in ItalyPeking’s name is changed to Beijingreturns to Villa La Pietrapublishes Memoirs of an Aesthetedeath of his father, Arthur Actondeath of his mother, Hortense Mitchell Actonawarded an honorary D.Litt by NYUknighted by HM Queen Elizabeth II and so takes the title of ‘Sir Harold Acton’publication of his festschrift Oxford, China and Italy on his 80th birthdaybestowed with Honorary Citizenship by the Mayor of Florencethe art collection of Villa La Pietra is listed by the Italian National Heritagedeath at Villa La Pietra. He is buried beside his parents and brother in the Roman Catholic section of the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo (Italy).Периоды
attends Wixenford Preparatory school, Wixenford, Berks, UKattends Chateau Lancy school, Geneva, Switzerlandttends Ashlawn school, Benenden, Kent, UKundergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford (he takes his degree in October 1926)
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