Lu Xun's Revolution Writing in a Time of Violence

Name: Lu Xun's Revolution Writing in a Time of Violence
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ISBN: 9780674072640

ISBN-10: 0674072642

ISBN-13: 9780674072640

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gloria Davies

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Widely recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the voice of a nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies’s portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.In Davies’s vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passionately engaged with the heady arguments and intrigues of a country on the eve of revolution. She traces political tensions in Lu Xun’s works which reflect the larger conflict in modern Chinese thought between egalitarian and authoritarian impulses.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/8/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Note on Translation


Guide and Chronology


Introduction: The Sage of Modern China



Eyes Wide Open



The Shanghai Haze



Guns and Words



Debating Lu Xun



Lu Xun's Revolutionary Literature



Raising Revolutionary Specters


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index