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Zhou Zuoren and An Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity

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Description for Zhou Zuoren and An Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity Hardcover. This text explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren, a controversial Chinese intellectual and brother of the writer Lu Xun Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed their nation-building and modernization projects. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.

This book explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren (1885–1967), one of the most controversial of modern Chinese intellectuals and brother of the writer Lu Xun. Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed their nation-building and modernization projects. Through his literary and aesthetic practice as an essayist, Zhou espoused a way of constructing the individual and affirming the individual’s importance in opposition to the normative national subject of most May Fourth reformers.

Zhou’s work presents an alternative vision of the nation and questions the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674002388
SKU
V9780674002388
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About Susan Daruvala
Susan Daruvala is University Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Cambridge.

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