Gu Hongming''s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey

Chunmei Du is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

List of contents

Chapter 1. An Inscrutable Eccentric

PART I. INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY

Chapter 2. In Search of the Spirit of the Chinese People

Chapter 3. The Rise of a Spokesman from the East

Chapter 4. Clash of Religions

PART II. PSYCHOLOGICAL PASSAGE

Chapter 5. How an Imitation Western Man Became a Chinaman Again

Chapter 6. Projections on a Chinese Screen

Chapter 7. To Reverence the King

Chapter 8. A Trickster's Trip on a Möbius Strip

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Chunmei Du

Summary

Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey is the first comprehensive study in English of Gu Hongming, both the private individual and the public cultural figure. An "imitation Western man" who became "a Chinaman again," Hongming was a reactionary to his contemporaries and an Eastern prophet to foreign intellectuals after the carnage of WWI.

Product details

• Authors: Chunmei Du
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780812251203
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5120-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Encounters with Asia; Encounters with Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics