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Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

by Zaifu Liu , Howard Y. F. Choy , Jianmei Liu
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004449114
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 376
  • Original Price: GBP 135.2
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 781 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Semiotics & Theory

Liu Zaifu 劉再復 is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Liu's profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. The essays collected here demonstrate Liu's historical experience and trajectory as an exiled Chinese intellectual who persistently safeguards the individuality and the autonomy of literature, refusing to succumb to political manipulation.

Liu's theory of literary subjectivity has opened ways for Chinese writers to thrive and innovate. His panoramic view not only unravels the intricate interplay between literature and politics but also firmly regards the transcendental value of literature as a significant ground to subvert revolutionary dogmatism and criticize Chinese modernity. Rather than drawing upon the existing paradigm, he reinvents his own unique theoretical conceptions in order to exile the borrowed "gods."

Howard Y. F. Choy, Ph.D. (2004), Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the editor of Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and Body in Modern China (Brill, 2016) and the author of Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Brill, 2008).

Liu Jianmei, Ph.D. (1998), Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Hawaii UP, 2003).

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