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Centered around the figures of Hu Feng, a leftist literary theorist who promoted "subjectivism," and his disciple Lu Ling, known for his psychological fiction, this study explores theoretical and fictional responses to the problematic of self at the heart of the experience of modernity in 20th-century China.

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Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Modernity and Cultural Politics: 1. Subjectivity and the discourses of modernity; 2. Hu Feng's subjectivism and cultural politics; 3. Lu Ling: a cultural-historical biography; 4. The politics of style and the narrative representation of mind; Part II. Lu Ling and teh Problematic of the Subject: 5. introduction; 6. The discourse of romantic individualism in Children of the Rich; 7. The power of the people: myth and cosmology in Children of the Rich and Hungry Guo Su'e; Conclusion.

The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/1998
      ISBN13: 9780804731287, 978-0804731287
      ISBN10: 0804731284

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Centered around the figures of Hu Feng, a leftist literary theorist who promoted "subjectivism," and his disciple Lu Ling, known for his psychological fiction, this study explores theoretical and fictional responses to the problematic of self at the heart of the experience of modernity in 20th-century China.

      Table of Contents
      Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Modernity and Cultural Politics: 1. Subjectivity and the discourses of modernity; 2. Hu Feng's subjectivism and cultural politics; 3. Lu Ling: a cultural-historical biography; 4. The politics of style and the narrative representation of mind; Part II. Lu Ling and teh Problematic of the Subject: 5. introduction; 6. The discourse of romantic individualism in Children of the Rich; 7. The power of the people: myth and cosmology in Children of the Rich and Hungry Guo Su'e; Conclusion.

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