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The Spirit of Zhuangzi and Chinese Utopian Imagination
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LIU Jianmei
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.11.003
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
ABSTRACT
Through examining Zhou Zuoren’s ideal of new village and Lin Yutang’s novel Unexpected Island, this article analyzes modern Chinese utopian imaginations inspired by Zhuangzi’s spirit, which complements what has been lacking in the modern utopian dream—individual spiritual liberation that resists any despotism of humanity and a more tolerant and multifaceted cultural mentality that fights against the unification of thought.
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Utopian, Zhuangzi, Lin Yutang, Zhou Zuoren, Yan Lianke, Ge Fei
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BAI, J. Y. (1979). 白居易集 (The collection of Bai Juyi). Beijing: 中华书局.
Berlin, I. (2002). Liberty. H. Hardy, (Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CHEN, G. Y. (1991).老庄新辩 (The new theory of Lao-Zhuang). Hong Kong: 中华书局.
Chuang, T. (1998). Wandering on the way: Early Taoist takes and parables of Chuang Tzu (V. H. Mair, trans.). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
CUI, D. H. (1992). 庄学研究 (The studies of Zhuangzi). Beijing: 人民出版社.
Daruvala, S. (2000). Zhou Zuoren and an alternative Chinese response to modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asian Center.
FANG, D. M. (1993). 方东美集 (The collection of Fang Dongmei). K. J. HUANG & X. L. ZHONG, (Eds.). Beijing: 群言出版社.
GAO, X. J. (2005). 冷的文学 (Cold Literature). (G. C. F. Fong & M. Lee, Trans.). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
HA, Y. F. (2008). 论周作人的道家立场 (On Zhou Zuoren’s Daoist position). 贵州社会科学, 7, 114-118.
Harvey, D. (2000). Spaces of hope. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hsia, C. T. (1999). A history of modern Chinese fiction (3rd ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
HU, S. (2003). 不朽—我的宗教 (Immortality—My religion). In 胡适全集 (The complete works of Hu Shi) (vol. 1, p. 659-668). Hefei: 安徽教育出版社.
Kinkley, J. C. (2015). Visions of dystopia in China’s new historical novels. New York: Columbia University Press.
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LIU, J. M. (2016). Zhuangzi and modern Chinese literature. New York: Oxford University Press. (in print)
LIU, X. G. (2010). 庄子哲学及其演变 (The philosophy of Zhuangzi and its transformation). Beijing: 中国人民大学出版社.
QIAN, M. (2002). 老庄通辩 (The general distinction between Laozi and Zhuangzi). Beijing: 三聊书店.
Ramoneda, J. (2012). At the end of Utopia—Indifference. In P. Vieira and M. Marder (Eds.), Existential Utopia: New perspectives on Utopian thought (pp. 113-126). New York: Continuum.
Schwartz, B. (1985). The world of thought in ancient China. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
SHEN, C. W. (1992). 沈从文文集 (The collection of Shen Cong-wen). GuangZhou: 花城出版社.
SHU, W. (2000). 周作人的是非功过 (The merits and demerits of Zhou Zuoren). Shenyang: 辽宁出版社.
WANG, D. D. W. (2015). Panglossian dream and dark consciousness: Modern Chinese literature and Utopia. (Paper presented at the conference Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces, University of Hong Kong, March 20-21).
ZHANG, L. X. (2015). Great unity as a social vision. (Paper presented at the conference Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces, University of Hong Kong, March 20-21).
ZHANG, T. Y. (2008). 后序 (Afterword). In 齐物论释 (The theory and interpretation of equating all things). In D. J. HU (Ed.) 十家论庄 (Ten experts talking about Zhuangzi) (pp. 421-451). Shanghai: 上海人民出版社.
ZHANG, Y. D. (2015). The Utopia of the human: About Ge Fei’s Jiangnan Trilogy. (Paper presented at the conference Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces, University of Hong Kong, March 20-21).
ZHAO, H. (2014).中国人的乌托邦之梦: 新村主义在中国的传播与发展 (The Chinese Utopian dream: The propagation and development of new village-ism in China). Taibei: 独立作家.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2002a). 欧洲文学史 (History of European Literature). Shijiazhuang: 河北教育出版社.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2002b). 人的文学 (Human Literature). In 艺术与生活 (Arts and life). In The self-selected collection of Zhou Zuoren (pp. 8-17). Shijiazhuang: 河北教育出版社.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2002c). 文艺的统一 (The unification of arts). In自己的园地 (My Own Garden). In The self-selected collection of Zhou Zuoren (pp. 24-26). Shijiazhuang: 河北教育出版社.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2002d). 文艺上的异物 (The different things in the arts). In 自己的园地 (My own garden). In The self-selected collection of Zhou Zuoren (pp. 27-30). Shijiazhuang: 河北教育出版社.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2002e). 艺术上的宽容 (The tolerance of arts). In 自己的园地 (My Own Garden). In The self-selected collection of Zhou Zuoren (pp. 8-10). Shijiazhuang: 河北教育出版社.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2002f). 新村的理想与实际 (The Ideal and Practice of the New Village). 艺术与生活 (Arts and life). In The self-selected collection of Zhou Zuoren (pp. 213-220). Shijiazhuang: 河北教育出版社.
ZHOU, Z. R. (April 1919). 日本的新村 (The New Village in Japan). 新青年.