Lu Xun and World Literature

Posted: January 23rd, 2025 | No Comments »

Lu Xun and World Literature by Xiaolu Ma and Carlos Rojas (Hong Kong University Press) continues the trend to incorporating Chinese contemporary literature into global modernism (as per Anne Witchard’s Lao She in London)….

In Lu Xun and World Literature, Xiaolu Ma, Carlos Rojas, and other contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. The contributors offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of foreign works that engage with his writings. This volume also focuses on many facets of the publication and dissemination of Lu Xun’s works’, from printing and binding to the discussions and debates that followed their release in China and abroad. This book not only makes an important contribution to the field of Lu Xun studies, but also proposes a reexamination of the category of world literature.

Xiaolu Ma is assistant professor of humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Carlos Rojas is professor of Chinese cultural studies and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Duke University.

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