The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction

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The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction

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Mau-sang Ng - Author

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

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Hardcover - 348 pages

Release Date: August 1988

ISBN10: 0-88706-880-4
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-880-5

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 348 pages

Release Date: August 1988

ISBN10: 0-88706-881-2
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-881-2

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Summary

The Russian influence took root in the Chinese intellectual tradition that evolved after the Literary Revolution of 1917. When the Chinese communists turned to Russia for their inspiration they also accepted the Russian version of the novel's form and function in society. However, they did not accept it uncritically. Chinese understanding of the arts goes back for thousands of years and thus Chinese intellectuals brought their own kinds of tradition and intelligence to these new arts and political solutions.

In this lucid study, the author demonstrates how Chinese writers, guided by Russian authors such as Chekhov, Turgenev, and Andreyev, created works of art that are both original and Chinese. However, he also shows that the familiar heroes of such famous novelists as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Mao Dun, and Ba Jin have a strong Russian flavor linked to prototypes in the Russian literary tradition.

The author depicts the fortune of Soviet literature and the fate of the intellectual hero in the People's Republic of China. He believes that the humanistic May Fourth intellectual tradition, which inspired enthusiasm for classical Russian literature, has been revived with the publication of works like Dai Houying's Man ah, Man! and Zhao Zhenkai's Waves.

Mau-sang Ng is on the staff of the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University and won the coveted Fairbank Center Fellowship for 1987-88.

Table of Contents

Foreword (by John Bayley)

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: The May Fourth Intellectual Background

Part I: The Response to Russian Literature

1: Translations and the Reading Public
2: Chinese Consciousness and the Russian Impact
3: The Russian Hero in the May Fourth Context

Part II: The Hero of His Time

4: Yu Dafu's Superfluous Hero
5: Mao Dun's Defeated Hero
6: Ba Jin's Estranged Hero
7: Lu Xun's Awakened Hero

Part III: In Search of a New Hero

8: Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Chinese Studies
Literary Criticism

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