Zhuangzi and modern Chinese literature

Zhuangzi and modern Chinese literature / Liu Jianmei.

This 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...

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Main Author: Liu, Jianmei, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Zhuangzi > Influence.
Chinese literature > Philosophy.
Taoist philosophy.
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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