Literature and Revolution in Modern China Lu Xun, Leon Trotsky, and Chen Duxiu
Innbundet /
2025
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9789004734388
Published
2025
Publisher
Brill; Brill
Weight
653 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
316
Edited and translated by
Author
Biographical note
Nagahori Yuzo, Keio University, is Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese Studies. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Lu Xun and the Chinese Trotskyists, including Okuda Kyoka, The Dentist Who Created Lu Xun's Death Mask (2024). Gregor Benton, Cardiff University, is Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese History. He has published many books and articles on Chinese Communism, dissent in China, and the Chinese diaspora.
This book reconstructs Lu Xun’s literary theory and political position within its historical context. It considers the influence on Lu Xun of Leon Trotsky’s literary theory and Lu Xun's relationship with the Chinese Trotskyists and the Chinese Communist Party. It corrects errors and shortcomings in conventional studies on Lu Xun and shows how Lu Xun was used for political purposes by the Chinese Communists
and Mao Zedong, beginning in the Yan’an years and culminating during the Cultural Revolution. It seeks to rescue Lu Xun from the distortion of his legacy by the Chinese Communist literary establishment, Mao Zedong, and Stalinism.
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This book reconstructs Lu Xun's literary theory and political position within its historical context, considering Trotsky's literary theory and his relationship with the Chinese Trotskyists and the CCP. The study revises the conventional view of Lu Xun's relationship with Trotsky.
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Product details
ISBN
9789004734388
Published
2025
Publisher
Brill; Brill
Weight
653 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
316
Edited and translated by
Author