LEADER 03547nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910452727603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07396-7 010 $a0-674-07394-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674073944 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039466 035 $a(EBL)3301283 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860467 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11503664 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860467 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10898474 035 $a(PQKB)11740515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301283 035 $a(DE-B1597)209789 035 $a(OCoLC)835981149 035 $a(OCoLC)979777338 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674073944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301283 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10679065 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039466 100 $a20120822d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLu Xun's revolution$b[electronic resource] $ewriting in a time of violence /$fGloria Davies 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-07264-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tNote on Translation -- $tGuide and Chronology -- $tIntroduction: The Sage of Modern China -- $t1. Eyes Wide Open -- $t2. The Shanghai Haze -- $t3. Guns and Words -- $t4. Debating Lu Xun -- $t5. Lu Xun's Revolutionary Literature -- $t6. Raising Revolutionary Specters -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aWidely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. In Davies's vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passionately engaged with the heady arguments and intrigues of a country on the eve of revolution. She traces political tensions in Lu Xun's works which reflect the larger conflict in modern Chinese thought between egalitarian and authoritarian impulses. During the last phase of Lu Xun's career, the so-called "years on the left," we see how fiercely he defended a literature in which the people would speak for themselves, and we come to understand why Lu Xun continues to inspire the debates shaping China today. Although Lu Xun was never a Communist, his legacy was fully enlisted to support the Party in the decades following his death. Far from the apologist of political violence portrayed by Maoist interpreters, however, Lu Xun emerges here as an energetic opponent of despotism, a humanist for whom empathy, not ideological zeal, was the key to achieving revolutionary ends. Limned with precision and insight, Lu Xun's Revolution is a major contribution to the ongoing reappraisal of this foundational figure. 606 $aPolitics and literature 607 $aChina$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 676 $a895.1/8509 700 $aDavies$b Gloria$f1958-$01045534 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452727603321 996 $aLu Xun's revolution$92471914 997 $aUNINA