Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction - Hu Feng and Lu Ling

This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be treated as class-based and derived from collective community.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I Hu Feng's Notion of "Subjective Fighting Spirit"
Chapter One
Cultural Capital, Hegemony and the Zeitgeist
Chapter Two
Intellectuals' Politics and a Bourgeois Subjectivity
Part II Subjectivity in Lu Ling's Fiction
Chapter Three
Subjectivity in Loss: Disintegration of Traditional Family and Emergence of Desire
Chapter Four
Subjectivity in Search of: "Bildungsroman" of Modern Chinese Intellectuals
Chapter Five
Subjectivity in Vain: A Fable of the Failure of Bourgeois Social Reforms
Chapter Six
Intellectuals in Predicament: Other Stories
Part III The People and the Class Consciousness
Chapter Seven
Politics of Recognition and Politics of Style
Chapter Eight
Self-Other Relationship and the Other as the People
Chapter Nine
Lu Ling's Theory and His Fiction
Conclusion
Index
About the Author

About the author

Xiaoping Wang is distinguished professor of comparative literature at Tongji University.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaoping Wang
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781498566193
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6619-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, History of Ideas, Philosophy, HISTORY / Asia / China, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Realism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Asian History, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Hu Feng;Lu Ling;modern China;realism;subjectivity