Li Zhuowu Biography

Author: Xu Jianping
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book presents Li Zhuowu as seen by someone in the 21st century, appearing real, novel, vivid, eccentric, and challenging—qualities rarely found in similar works. It is not a novel but aims to write a genuine biography. The reading experience of a true biography is not inferior to that of a novel. This is because, in addition to its narrative appeal and emotional resonance like a novel, it possesses its own unique and proprietary feature—authenticity. The book vividly narrates Li Zhuowu's eccentric childhood; his confident youth; his youth filled with familial love; his middle years traveling between the two capitals and immersing himself in Wang Xue; his later years deeply studying Buddhism and Taoism, becoming obsessed with the I Ching, and being both (crazy and eccentric) and (superb and transcendent). It portrays Li Zhuowu in the intellectual realm, seeking original insights, defying tradition, valuing individuality, advocating sincerity, and opposing academic and intellectual constraints, revealing his significant role in the enlightenment of modern Chinese cultural and intellectual thought.