Liu Jianmei
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Year:
2016
Abstract:
This is a powerful account of how the ruin and resurrection of Zhuangzi in modern China's literary history correspond to the rise and fall of modern Chinese individuality. The book highlights two central philosophical themes of Zhuangzi: the absolute spiritual freedom and the rejection of absolute and fixed views on right and wrong. It argues that the twentieth-century reinterpretation and appropriation of these two important philosophical themes best testify to the dilemma and inner struggle of modern Chinese intellectuals
Table of Contents:
Guo Moruo: radically changing attitudes toward Zhuangzi
Hu Shi: biological evolutionism and Zhuangzi
Lu Xun: the persistent rejection of Zhuangzi
Zhou Zuoren: the unconscious and troubled semi-Zhuangzi
Lin Yutang: Zhuangzi travels to the West
Fei Ming: from artistic transcendence to political kitsch
The unlucky fate of Zhuangzi
The resurrection of Zhuangzi in the 1980s
Yan Lianke's vacillation: to be or not to be Zhuangzi
Gao Xingjian: the triumph of the modern Zhuangzi
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