Kirk A. Denton. The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling.(Review)

From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Kirk A. Denton. The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. X, 324 pp. Hardcover $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3128-4.

Kirk Denton's The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling merits the double attention of scholars and students in modern Chinese studies. To begin with, it is much more than a study of modem Chinese literature, for it attempts to chart cultural change in modern China in terms of the transformation in Chinese subjectivity. In doing this difficult job, Denton offers an ...

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