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Lu Xun: The Chinese Gentle Nietzsche

Lu Xun: The Chinese Gentle Nietzsche

Paperback

PhilosophyMiscellaneous LanguagesLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631380739
ISBN13: 9783631380734
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Aug 21 2001
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This is a comparative study of the Chinese left-wing intellectual leader Lu Xun and the gentle Nietzsche. It covers four major aspects of their affinities: the intellectual, the political, the literary, and the personal.
The study does not aim at demythologising the Lu Xun cult in China which has already been shattered in the hands of its creators. Through an examination of Nietzsche's influence on Lu Xun and an analysis of their similarities, this study reveals a new dimension of Lu Xun's radicalism which remains relevant to the present world. Looking at Lu Xun from the gentle Nietzschean perspective, this study also elicits new meanings in Lu Xun's arguments about Chinese national character and his insights into the crisis in Chinese culture which remain haunting questions in the Chinese intellectual arena.

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