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...” and philosophy dating from the origins of the written graphemes that make up the hanzi , or written medium. Always ill, always fleeing, the polylingual and cosmopolitan Qu, who died at age thirty-six, left behind a vast archive of unfinished work and fresh, complex ideas about the real, the social...

... lexical, orthographic, and writing reforms. Barlow suggests that for Qu, who played a key role in the institutionaliza- tion of sociology in China as a Marxist discipline, the hanzi, or old written Chinese language, resembled “an undead zombie or a filthy ghost” that posed a major obstacle...