Literary Remains : : Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn /

Literary Remains : : Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn / / Eileen J. Cheng.

Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging conventional depict...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Cheng, Eileen J.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 12 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Re-membering the Past
  • 1. The Limits of Subjectivity
  • 2. The Illegitimate Preface
  • 3. (Un)Faithful Biographers
  • Part Two. New Culture through the Prism of Tradition
  • 4. Death by Applause
  • 5. The Abandoned Lover
  • 6. The Journey Home
  • Part Three. Dialogic Encounters
  • 7. Mocking the Sages
  • 8. Disenchanted Fables
  • Epilogue: Remembrance, Forgetting, and Radical Hope
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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