Liu Jianmei

Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a powerful account of how the ruin and resurrection of Zhuangzi in modern China's literary history correspond to the rise and fall of modern Chinese individuality. By examining the twentieth century reinterpretation and appropriation of Zhuangzi, the author explores modern Chinese writers' complicated relationship with "tradition."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190238155
• ISBN-10: 0190238151
• Artikelnr.: 47864169

Autorenporträt

Liu Jianmei is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Guo Moruo: Radically Changing Attitudes Toward Zhuangzi
Chapter 2 Hu Shi: Biological Evolutionism and Zhuangzi
Chapter 3 Lu Xun: The Persistent Rejection of Zhuangzi
Chapter 4 Zhou Zuoren: The Unconscious and Troubled Semi-Zhuangzi
Chapter 5 Lin Yutang: Zhuangzi Travels to the West
Chapter 6 Fei Ming: From Artistic Transcendence to Political Kitsch
Chapter 7 The Unlucky Fate of Zhuangzi
Chapter 8 The Resurrection of Zhuangzi in the 1980s
Chapter 9 Yan Lianke's Vacillation: To Be or Not to Be Zhuangzi
Chapter 10 Gao Xingjian: The Triumph of the Modern Zhuangzi
Bibliography
Notes