Configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature / Qin Wang.
2020
PL2303 .W36 2020eb
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Title
Configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature / Qin Wang.
Author
Wang, Qin, author.
ISBN
9789813296404 (electronic book)
9813296402 (electronic book)
9789813296398
9813296402 (electronic book)
9789813296398
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
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10.1007/978-981-32-9640-4 doi
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PL2303 .W36 2020eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
895.109/005
Summary
This book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature through analyzing several classic texts written by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lao She, and Mu Shiying. It attempts to refresh our understanding of the history of modern Chinese literature and indirectly responds to the controversial issue of "individual rights" (or "human rights") in present-day China, showing that in modern Chinese literature, various configurations of the individual imply political possibilities that are not only irreconcilable with each other, but irreducible to the determination of the modern discourse of "individualism" introduced by the West. A groundbreaking work, it will give valuable context to political scientists and other scholars seeking to understand what "China" means in the 21st century. Qin Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University, USA. He is the translator of the Chinese editions of Jacques Derrida's Donner la mort and La bête et le souverain, Volume 1, Richard Bernstein's Radical Evil, Jacques Lezra's Wild Materialism, and David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Literary Evolutionism and Its Discontents: Between Zhou Zuoren and Lu Xun
3. Individuality contra "Homo Economicus": A Reading of Lao She's Camel-Xiangzi
4. Touch, Body, and the New Perceptionism: Mu Shiying's Case
5. Lu Xun's "Ah Jin" and the Politics of Exemplarity.
2. Literary Evolutionism and Its Discontents: Between Zhou Zuoren and Lu Xun
3. Individuality contra "Homo Economicus": A Reading of Lao She's Camel-Xiangzi
4. Touch, Body, and the New Perceptionism: Mu Shiying's Case
5. Lu Xun's "Ah Jin" and the Politics of Exemplarity.