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Author Hu, Mingyuan, author.

Title Fou Lei : an insistence on truth / by Mingyuan Hu
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017

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Contents Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Note on Translation -- Prologue -- Part 1: Shanghai in Revolution: An Unlived Youth -- 1 Everywhere a Stranger -- Part 2: The Spleen of Paris: A Bildungsroman -- 2 Crisis: What Bruges Did Not Appease -- 3 Malady: Child of the Century by Lac Léman -- 4 Remedy: The Promise of Tainean Scientism -- 5 Fever: From Werther to Beethoven -- 6 Light: A Willed Metamorphosis -- Part 3: Shanghai in Turmoil: A Land of Chimera
7 Moralising in Times of War: A Critic was Born8 Translating, or the Search for a Brother -- 9 Creatures of Prometheus, or Unresolved Grief -- Epilogue -- Bibliography
Summary In Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth , Mingyuan Hu thinks through the life and work of one of modern China's most significant public intellectuals, investigating his Shanghai-Paris trajectory and his resistance against cultural barbarism. Using hitherto undiscovered archival documents, Hu presents the first study of Fou Lei's youth, particularly his formative years in Europe (1928-1931), and analyses the critic-translator's identity vis-à-vis intercultural friendships and political predicaments. Bringing together previously untranslated material in French and Chinese, Fou Lei paints a man in dark times searching for illumination through words, and invites the reader to reconsider questions, unresolved and unspoken, about his tragic end
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fu, Lei, 1908-1966.
SUBJECT Fu, Lei, 1908-1966 fast
Subject Authors, Chinese -- 20th century -- Biography
Translators -- China -- Biography
1900 - 1999.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Authors, Chinese
Translators
China
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017025416
ISBN 9789004343924
900434392X