{"product_id":"zhou-zuoren-and-an-alternative-susan-daruvala-9780674002388","title":"Zhou Zuoren and an Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), one of the most controversial of modern Chinese intellectuals and brother of the writer Lu Xun. Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed their nation-building and modernization projects. Through his literary and aesthetic practice as an essayist, Zhou espoused a way of constructing the individual and affirming the individual's importance in opposition to the normative national subject of most May Fourth reformers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZhou's work presents an alternative vision of the nation and questions the monolithic claims of modernity by promoting traditional aesthetic categories, the locality rather than the nation, and a literary history that values openness and individualism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Daruvala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674002385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674002388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.39w x 1.16d","brand":"Susan Daruvala","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065036878079,"sku":"9780674002388","price":41.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_199e2ad9-8391-482f-b3a6-0ac51a9ca004.jpg?v=1768672720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zhou-zuoren-and-an-alternative-susan-daruvala-9780674002388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}