Zhou Zuoren and an Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity

by Susan Daruvala

This book explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), one of the most controversial of modern Chinese intellectuals and brother of the writer Lu Xun. Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed their nation-building and modernization projects. Through his literary and aesthetic practice as an essayist, Zhou espoused a way of constructing the individual and affirming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002385
• ISBN13: 9780674002388
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"