Unfinished modernity

Author: Li Ou-fan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The author Li Ou-fan is a renowned scholar in the field of modern literature research and criticism. With a relaxed and effortless style, the author addresses cutting-edge academic issues over the past few years, such as modernity, cultural studies, the human spirit, urban culture, and more. From the modernity in literature since the late Qing Dynasty to the May Fourth New Culture Movement, the relationship between modernity and the entire modern Chinese literature, as well as the exploration of Shanghai and urban culture, the author presents his thoughts and insights on many cutting-edge issues in these essays. What is particularly valuable is that these reflections are mostly presented in the form of lectures, vivid and engaging, unlike other lengthy articles that simply present a fixed idea to readers. We can always see the author's line of reasoning, approach to inquiry, and even his dilemmas. These essays should be considered as outlines, as the propositions and ideas in them are thoroughly elaborated and expanded upon in the author's other (monographs).