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Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature

By: Jianmei Liu

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Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature

By: Jianmei Liu

This is a powerful account of how the ruin and resurrection of Zhuangzi in modern China's literary history correspond to the rise and fall of modern Chinese individuality. By examining the twentieth century reinterpretation and appropriation of Zhuangzi, the author explores modern Chinese writers' complicated relationship with "tradition.

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307

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Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN 10

0190238151

ISBN 13

9780190238155

Revolution Plus Love

Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

By: Liu Jianmei

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Revolution Plus Love

Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

By: Liu Jianmei

In the aftermath of the May Fourth movement, a growing expectation of revolution raised important intellectual issues about the position of the individual within a society in turmoil and the shifting boundaries of political and sexual identities. The theme of "revolution plus love," a literary response to the widespread insurrections and upheaval, was first popularized in the late 1920s. In her examination of this popular but understudied literary formula, Liu Jianmei argues that revolution and love are culturally variable entities, their interplay a complex and constantly changing literary practice that is socially and historically determined. Liu looks at the formulary writing of "revolution plus love" from the 1930s to the 1970s as a case study of literary politics. Favored by leftist writers during the early period of revolutionary literature, it continued to influence mainstream Chinese literature up to the 1970s. By drawing a historical picture of the articulation and rearticulation of this theme, Liu shows how changes in revolutionary discourse force unpredictable representations of gender rules and power relations, and how women's bodies reveal the complex interactions between political representation and gender roles. Revolution Plus Love is a nuanced and carefully considered work on gender and modernity in China, unmatched in its broad use of literary resources. It will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Chinese literature, women’s studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

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288

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University of Hawaii Press

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ISBN 10

0824843304

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9780824843304

Chemical Transformations of Vinylidenecyclopropanes

By: Lixiong Shao,Jianmei Lu,Min Shi

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Chemical Transformations of Vinylidenecyclopropanes

By: Lixiong Shao,Jianmei Lu,Min Shi

Modern organic synthesis has paid much attention to the chemistry of small carbocycles. Vinylidenecyclopropanes (VDCPs), which have strained cyclopropyl group connected with an allene moiety and yet are thermally stable and reactive substances in organic chemistry, are versatile intermediates in organic synthesis. In this volume, Dr. Lixiong Shao, Dr. Jianmei Lu and Prof. Dr. Min Shi review their investigations on the chemistry of VDCPs, mainly including the preparation, the reactivities upon treatment with Lewis or Brønsted acid, as well as transition metal catalysts and some other miscellaneous analogues. The contributions aroused a renaissance of cationic intermediates in the chemistry of VDCPs.

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