Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction

Hu Feng and Lu Ling

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The questions of subjectivity and the literary style of realism, as manifested in Hu Feng's theoretical writings and Lu Ling's fictional writings, occupy a unique position in modern China. By looking more closely into the theoretical and fictional texts and the social-historical subtext, and through a re-examination of the issue of subjectivity and individualism, this book argues that individualism should not be treated as an ahistorical value-system, but understood within changing historical contexts; subjectivity should not be treated as an issue of personal choice, but as class-based and derived from collective community. To differentiate different subjectivities and the diversified foci of individualism in differing historical periods, Xiaoping Wang finds we need to explore the intellectuals' cultural-political strategy by situating them in the particular historical conjuncture and in the particular cultural fields. With this hermeneutical practice, the politics of recognition and the politics of style are mutually illuminated.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-14
Mått:160 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt:553 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498566193

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Xiaoping Wang is distinguished professor of comparative literature at Tongji University.

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Theoretically well-informed and methodologically rigorous, this outstanding study of the works of Hu Feng and Lu Ling incorporates the insights brought out by existing works, and departs from them by offering insightful, new interpretations through delving into the larger issues of cultural politics and ideologies during the radical revolutionary era of the 1930s and 1940s in modern China. This significant contribution substantially develops the present scholarship and will contribute significantly to the scholarship on modern Chinese literature and culture studies.

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IntroductionPart I Hu Feng’s Notion of “Subjective Fighting Spirit”Chapter One Cultural Capital, Hegemony and the ZeitgeistChapter Two Intellectuals’ Politics and a Bourgeois SubjectivityPart II Subjectivity in Lu Ling’s FictionChapter ThreeSubjectivity in Loss: Disintegration of Traditional Family and Emergence of Desire Chapter Four Subjectivity in Search of: “Bildungsroman” of Modern Chinese IntellectualsChapter Five Subjectivity in Vain: A Fable of the Failure of Bourgeois Social Reforms Chapter SixIntellectuals in Predicament: Other StoriesPart III The People and the Class ConsciousnessChapter SevenPolitics of Recognition and Politics of StyleChapter EightSelf-Other Relationship and the Other as the PeopleChapter NineLu Ling’s Theory and His FictionConclusionIndexAbout the Author