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Lu Xun and World Literature
Impressive and significant contributions to Lu Xun scholarship and world literature.
In Lu Xun and World Literature, the contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. They offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of foreign works that engage with his writings. This volume also focuses on many facets of the publication and dissemination of Lu Xun’s works, from printing and binding to the discussions and debates that followed their release in China and abroad. This book not only makes an important contribution to the field of Lu Xun studies, but also proposes a reexamination of the category of world literature.
In Lu Xun and World Literature, the contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. They offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of foreign works that engage with his writings. This volume also focuses on many facets of the publication and dissemination of Lu Xun’s works, from printing and binding to the discussions and debates that followed their release in China and abroad. This book not only makes an important contribution to the field of Lu Xun studies, but also proposes a reexamination of the category of world literature.
Reviews
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Table vii
Note on Sources viii
Preface ix
Carlos Rojas
List of Contributors xv
Introduction: Lu Xun, China, and the World 1
Xiaolu Ma
Part 1: Lu Xun and the World
1. Lu Xun, World Poetry, and Poetic Worlding: From Mara Poetry to
Revolutionary Literature 19
Pu Wang
2. The Young Lu Xun and Weltliteratur: The Making of Anthology of Short
Stories from beyond the Border 33
Wendong Cui
3. Lu Xun’s Russian Intertexts and the Dialectics of Optimism and Pessimism 49
Keru Cai
4. What Happens after a Text Leaves Home? Lu Xun, Ibsen, and Ichiyo 65
Satoru Hashimoto
5. Guarded Pages, Borderless Books: Lu Xun and the Revolution of the
Book in Modern China 83
Xiaoyu Xia
Part 2: Lu Xun into the World
6. (Geo)politics of Aesthetics: Transculturation of Lu Xun in Korea 101
Shijung Kim
7. Belated Reception and Residual Influence: Lu Xun and Spain 117
Carles Prado-Fonts
Contents
vi Contents
8. Penitence, Mercy, and Conversion: Lu Xun as a Topos of World
Literature 131
Xiaolu Ma
9. Ghostwriting the Subalterns: Rereading Ah Q through Wong Bik-wan’s
Lielaozhuan 146
Wayne C. F. Yeung
10. “Each of Them Is a Lu Xun”: Lu Xun’s Virtual Children in Southeast Asia 163
Carlos Rojas
Part 3: Lu Xun and Worlding
11. Structure of Suspicion: Body, Time, and the Worlding of
Nontranscendence in Lu Xun’s and Guo Moruo’s Fiction on Laozi 179
Kun Qian
12. Beyond Oneself: Writing and Effacement in Wild Grass and Morning
Blossoms Gathered at Dusk 195
Eileen J. Cheng
13. The Severe Style: Law, Irony, and the Absolute in Lu Xun 210
Roy Chan
14. Lu Xun, Nonhumans, and the Critique of Domination 226
Christopher K. Tong
Postface 239
Carlos Rojas
Appendix: Chinese Characters of Lu Xun’s Names, Pen Names, and
Work Titles Cited in This Volume 243
Bibliography 249
Index 279
Note on Sources viii
Preface ix
Carlos Rojas
List of Contributors xv
Introduction: Lu Xun, China, and the World 1
Xiaolu Ma
Part 1: Lu Xun and the World
1. Lu Xun, World Poetry, and Poetic Worlding: From Mara Poetry to
Revolutionary Literature 19
Pu Wang
2. The Young Lu Xun and Weltliteratur: The Making of Anthology of Short
Stories from beyond the Border 33
Wendong Cui
3. Lu Xun’s Russian Intertexts and the Dialectics of Optimism and Pessimism 49
Keru Cai
4. What Happens after a Text Leaves Home? Lu Xun, Ibsen, and Ichiyo 65
Satoru Hashimoto
5. Guarded Pages, Borderless Books: Lu Xun and the Revolution of the
Book in Modern China 83
Xiaoyu Xia
Part 2: Lu Xun into the World
6. (Geo)politics of Aesthetics: Transculturation of Lu Xun in Korea 101
Shijung Kim
7. Belated Reception and Residual Influence: Lu Xun and Spain 117
Carles Prado-Fonts
Contents
vi Contents
8. Penitence, Mercy, and Conversion: Lu Xun as a Topos of World
Literature 131
Xiaolu Ma
9. Ghostwriting the Subalterns: Rereading Ah Q through Wong Bik-wan’s
Lielaozhuan 146
Wayne C. F. Yeung
10. “Each of Them Is a Lu Xun”: Lu Xun’s Virtual Children in Southeast Asia 163
Carlos Rojas
Part 3: Lu Xun and Worlding
11. Structure of Suspicion: Body, Time, and the Worlding of
Nontranscendence in Lu Xun’s and Guo Moruo’s Fiction on Laozi 179
Kun Qian
12. Beyond Oneself: Writing and Effacement in Wild Grass and Morning
Blossoms Gathered at Dusk 195
Eileen J. Cheng
13. The Severe Style: Law, Irony, and the Absolute in Lu Xun 210
Roy Chan
14. Lu Xun, Nonhumans, and the Critique of Domination 226
Christopher K. Tong
Postface 239
Carlos Rojas
Appendix: Chinese Characters of Lu Xun’s Names, Pen Names, and
Work Titles Cited in This Volume 243
Bibliography 249
Index 279