Personal Concepts in the Early Texts of Lu Xun

Author: Wang Weidong
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book adopts a method of lexical analysis, taking The Complete Works of Lu Xun as its textual scope. It studies the certainty, wholeness, and evolution of the concept of "the individual" in Lu Xun's early works (roughly divided by 1927, including the Japanese period, the decade of seclusion, the New Youth period, and the Wandering—Wild Grass period). Based on this foundation, it explores the intellectual origins, complexity, creativity, and problems of Lu Xun's concept of "the individual" against the backdrop of Chinese and Western intellectual history. Through the textual analysis of Lu Xun's early concept of "the individual," this book not only attempts to (reconstruct) Lu Xun's related thoughts within their original texts for reintegration, thereby establishing objectivity, but also seeks to discover how Lu Xun "appropriated" and integrated different modernity concepts from various origins into a unified intellectual landscape. This selective and integrative approach—Lu Xun's acceptance of the Western "individual" through the Chinese "self"—has given rise to what intellectual originality and what reflective intellectual issues.