Zhou Zuoren and An Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674002385 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Susan Daruvala is University Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Cambridge
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Zhou's work presents an alternative vision of the nation and questions the monolithic claims of modernity by promoting traditional aesthetic categories, the locality rather than the nation, and a literary history that values openness and individualism.. 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
. Susan Daruvala is University Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Cambridge