

On page 121, Young explains, “Humanism itself, often validated amongst the highest values of European civilization, was deeply complicit with the violent negativity of colonialism, and played a crucial part in its ideology. Robert Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (New York: Routledge, 1990). Russell reiterates the same point in 1943 in his “My Mental Development,” in The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, (ed.) Paul Arthur Schilpp (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1989), p. 125.īertrand Russell, The Problem of China (New York: The Century Co., 1922), p. Lin Yu-Sheng, The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979), p. Hsia, Chih-tsing, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), p. In the article, Chen reviews a number of critical essays written on what Ah Q represents by Chen Qiufan, Feng Wenbin, Mao Dun, and Chen Zunan.

48.Ĭhen Shijin, “A Q jiujing shi yige shenme dianxing?” (Exactly What Type Is Ah Q?), Lu Xun yanjiu, 9, 99. In another article, “Du Nahan” (On Reading Na Han), he wrote that “Ah Q is not necessarily a representative of the Chinese, but may typify one of the weaknesses of humankind.” Wenxue zhoubao (Literature Weekly), 1991, p. Mao Dun, “Tongxin” (Correspondence), Xiaoshuo yuebao, 13: 2. Lu Xun, “Ewen yiben A Q zhengzhuan xuji zhuzhe zixu zhuanlue” (Preface to the Russian translation of The True Story of Ah Q and a few things about the author), in Jiwai ji (Addenda Collection), (Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973), pp. (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1993), p. Tang Tao, History of Modern Chinese Literature. Fredric Jameson, “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” Social Text, 15 (Fall 1986), pp.
