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Liu Zaifu is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Lius profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. The essays collected here demonstrate Lius historical experience and trajectory as an exiled Chinese intellectual who persistently safeguards the individuality and the autonomy of literature, refusing to succumb to political manipulation.
Lius theory of literary subjectivity has opened ways for Chinese writers to thrive and innovate. His panoramic view not only unravels the intricate interplay between literature and politics but also firmly regards the transcendental value of literature as a significant ground to subvert revolutionary dogmatism and criticize Chinese modernity. Rather than drawing upon the existing paradigm, he reinvents his own unique theoretical conceptions in order to exile the borrowed gods.
Lius theory of literary subjectivity has opened ways for Chinese writers to thrive and innovate. His panoramic view not only unravels the intricate interplay between literature and politics but also firmly regards the transcendental value of literature as a significant ground to subvert revolutionary dogmatism and criticize Chinese modernity. Rather than drawing upon the existing paradigm, he reinvents his own unique theoretical conceptions in order to exile the borrowed gods.
Price: $161.00
Pages: 376
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
17 June 2021
ISBN: 9789004449114
Format: Hardcover
"From an editorial perspective, the selection of essays and the quality of the translations are very good, and both the volumes preface (authored by David Der-wei Wang) and introduction (authored by the volumes co-editors) are excellent. The translators and editors have included in-line Chinese characters for all proper names, titles of texts, and some specialized terminology, and have also added bibliographic footnotes where needed...The present volume offers English-language readers a small sampling of [Liu Zaifu's] formidable body of work."
-Carlos Rojas, Duke University, in MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright November, 2021)
-Carlos Rojas, Duke University, in MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright November, 2021)
Howard Y. F. Choy, Ph.D. (2004), Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the editor of Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and Body in Modern China (Brill, 2016) and the author of Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Brill, 2008).
Liu Jianmei, Ph.D. (1998), Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Hawaii UP, 2003).
Liu Jianmei, Ph.D. (1998), Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Hawaii UP, 2003).