"Make the past serve the present!"Thus goes Mao Zedong's slogan on how to appropriate the ancient in revolutionary times.In my previous studies,I have argued that the Chinese writers,engagement with the an cient gave ...
Setting to the task of a logical exposition of this article from Mao's Talks with regards to both historical context and philosophical content, a re-reading explores the "living historical document" as a theoretical p...
Previous studies of the Creation Society have focused on the literary works produced by members of the Creation Society and found their intellectual careers disappointingly "polluted" by politics and their works lac...
As a revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong had a new vision of China as a reformed revolutionary society. Challenging this radical social vision in The Ninth Widow (Di jiu ge guafu, 2006) and One Woman's Epic (Yige nur...
Zhang Taiyan is one of the most powerful thinkers in modem times. From the 1890s he began reading European works of philosophy, history, and thought as they became available in Japanese translation. He also began to a...
Russian writer Nicholas Tempered (1934) provided generations Ostrovski's novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model: a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image o...