A Comparative Study of Cultural Psychology between Lu Xun and Hu Shi: Hesitation Between Tradition and Modernity

Author: Wang Rui
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book takes the cultural psychology of Lu Xun and Hu Shi as the research perspective, analyzing the complex entanglement between them and traditional culture, foreign culture, as well as their different attitudes toward historical culture, current politics, and personal marital status. Through comparative analysis, it describes and outlines the struggles and compromises of the May Fourth generation intellectuals, who, due to their position in the period of historical transformation, were caught between the new and the old, emotion and reason, love and hatred, filial piety and desire, rebellion and submission, in their inner depths. The book particularly emphasizes the close connection between humans as social beings and the interdependent and mutually restrictive relationship between their individual psychology and cultural environment.