An Analysis of Overseas Chinese Leader Zhang Rongxuan's Identity Consciousness and the Cultural Value of His Poems
Zhang Rong-xuan's poem collection A Sequel to Poems Written Overseas is a true reflection of his inner feelings and value identity as a merchant and official,and can be corroborated by his other volumes of works written while overseas.His poems embody his iden-tity with China,after living in Southeast Asia for a long time,and the selection and annotation of the poems also reflect his rational thinking on China's economic modernization and prosperity.The readers of his poems were expected to be Chinese,so his poems about the culture,peo-ple's livelihood,science and technology,and institutions of overseas countries also played the role of information dissemination,reflecting his eagerness to open his eyes and see the rest of the world and the theme of learning from the West.
Zhang Rong-xuanA Sequel to Poems Written OverseasIdentity consciousnessCultural value