Sexual Issues: Modern Interpretation of Modernity in 1920s Chinese Fiction

Author: Xu Zhongjia
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book incorporates the issues of sexuality in the 1920s and their literary representations into the theoretical interpretation of modernity, effectively curbing the phenomenon of the increasingly hollowing-out discussion of modernity in recent years. At the same time, it provides a practical and solid understanding and analysis of the important phenomenon of sexual depiction in modern Chinese literature, reflecting considerable academic innovation. — Zhu Shoutong
This book offers a relatively comprehensive review of the novels in the 1920s that deal with issues of sexuality, presenting a relatively complete description of their developmental trajectory. Through a classified narrative approach, it reveals the evolution of the "modern sexuality" concepts embedded in these novels. Additionally, it provides innovative analyses of the character portrayals in these novels from the perspectives of "self-imagination" and "female imagination." These insights offer valuable guidance for people to reassess and better understand such works. — Zhu Xiaojin
This book places the issue of sexuality within a broad historical and cultural context, examining it from political, cultural, psychological, aesthetic, and dynamic yet objective perspectives. The text extensively verifies materials, traces the origins, and clarifies the key aspects, demonstrating strong persuasiveness and reflecting the author's rigorous academic approach of tracing the roots. — Gao Yongnian
The perspective on sexuality is a fundamental value order of human beings, and the 1920s was a period when modern Chinese views on sexuality took shape. By tracing the trajectory of the issue of sexuality in 1920s Chinese culture, this book outlines the cultural map of the modern phenomenon of sexuality in the 1920s. It also reexamines the literary phenomena in the evolution of 1920s novels, uncovering the modern connotations of important literary phenomena. Furthermore, it reinterprets the modern significance of important works by significant writers of the 1920s.
Beyond interpreting the modern connotations of a literary history within the context of modernity, the author aims to provide an experimental exploration of rewriting literary history through modernity. Additionally, the author hopes to find a relatively near coordinate for our nation's "establishment of the person" in the new century.