Self-Representation and the Peasant ‘Other’ in Modern Chinese Literature
by
Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The division between the scholar-gentry class and the “people” was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and...