...Wang Hui Wang Hui's essay explaining “Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices,” Lu Xun's dense 1908 meditation on the cultural dilemmas China could no longer put off facing, is the first work to offer a comprehensive reading of this important text. Discussing the treatise in deep historical...

...Lu Xun “Po e'sheng lun” (Toward a refutation of malevolent voices) is an essay from the formative period of the famous Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), penned in Tokyo in the classical Chinese language, and first published in December of 1908 (issue no. 8 of Henan , a soon-to-be-banned journal...

...Gloria Davies What do we mean by “Chinese thought,” and how should we engage with it? This essay begins with the claim that sixiang , or “Chinese thought,” is best approached as both a mode of critical inquiry and a style of rhetorical persuasion. It argues that Lu Xun's reflections on baihua...

..., thinking of writing the preface for this book that compiles Lu Xun’s debates with his opponents, for a long while I found myself unable to pen a word. I know that Lu Xun, during his lifetime, would have wanted to have such a book edited and published, since only in such battles did he feel alive...

...-century style literary realism, it proposes to consider Lu Xun as a modernist writer and uses a comparative perspective to underscore his commonalities with European modernism. Comparing “The True story of Ah Q” with Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan and Kafka's “Building the Great Wall of China...

...Ted Huters © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Introduction Ted Huters Lu Xun’s unfinished 1908 essay “Toward a Refutation of Malevo- lent Voices,” the subject of the article by Wang Hui translated here, has...

... for educated persons to conduct themselves as moral exemplars. In this essay, the divergent ramifications of this Confucian dictum are explored via several Chinese thinkers including Huang Zongxi, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, and Mao Zedong. Their intellectual legacies are considered in relation to present-day uses...

... and cultural flows in the digital age. Her publications include Worrying About China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (2007). She has recently completed a book manuscript on Lu Xun and is currently working on a book project about digital dissent in the People’s Republic. Wolfgang...

... and Richlings .” London Review of Books 36 , no. 3 : 17 – 20 . Lee Ching Kwan . 2007 . Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt . Berkeley : University of California Press . Lu Xun . 1985 . Selected Works of Lu Xun . Vol. 2 . Translated by Yang Xianyi...

... 1942), and Mao Zedong 1893–1976); reworking Chinese linguis- tics; working intimately with the founder of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun 1881–1936), in the League of Left-­Wing Writers and establishing the philosophic foundation of Communist Party Marxism. My focus here is on how Qu...

... House . Xun Lu 鲁迅 . 1991 . “ 忽然想到,三” (“Sudden Thoughts III”) . In vol. 3 of 《鲁迅全集》 (Complete Works of Lu Xun) , 14 – 20 . Beijing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe . Marin Louis . 1989 . Food for Thought . Translated by Hjort Mette . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press...

..., Lu Xun (1881 1936), a pivotal figure in twentieth- century Chinese cultural history, also expounded on the necessity of capa- cious literary accounts to capture significant historical events. Lu s interest in the capacity and length of the narrative form, against the backdrop of a post May Fourth...

..., one dealing with the relationship between literature, democracy, and locality in May Fourth times, the other on post-­Tiananmen Chinese literature and cinema. He has also published French translations of Lu Xun and several contemporary authors. ...

.... His publications include The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (four volumes), Resisting Despair: Lu Xun and His Literary World, and China’s New Order. ...

...), The End of the Revolution (2009), Depoliticized Politics: The End of the Short Twentieth Century and the 1990s (2008), The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (four volumes, 2004), China’s New Order (2003), and Resisting Despair: Lu Xun and His Literary World (1990), among others. He taught...

... include Depoliticized Politics: The End of the Short Twentieth Century and the 1990s (2008), The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (four volumes, 2004), China’s New Order (2003) and Resisting Despair: Lu Xun and His Literary World (1990). He taught as a visiting professor at Columbia...

... treats with special care. Zhang is important because his antimodern stance is both reflexively modern and mythically ancient. This paradoxical streak of antimodern modernity was later carried on and intensified by his student Lu Xun. Unlike Yan Fu and Liang Qichao, Zhang refused to subsume...

..., conservative, and supportive of the status quo.”46 Bell is right to point out that by encouraging people to look into themselves and selectively quot- ing from The Analects to seek the good life, Yu Dan is encouraging apathy. To me, her philosophy is similar to that embodied by Lu Xun’s character Ah Q...

... leading May Fourth cultural critics, such as Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun, appeared mostly in periodicals of mass circulation. At the same time, a large number of modern forms of in- formation dissemination—newspapers, magazines, and periodicals—came into being, opened up new avenues for engaging with public...

.... The same about non-­Western literature. If you don’t know about it, don’t say anything about it. The example Jameson gave from Lu Xun was not even a good example. But of course there are many national allegories. The Turk- ish writer Tanpinar, for example: his Time Regulation Institute is a perfect...