Lu Xun''s Revolution - Writing in a Time of Violence

Klappentext Recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters! Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the nation's conscience! a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies's vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. Zusammenfassung Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Davies, Davies Gloria
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674072640
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07264-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Chinese, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence