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Xu Zhimo, 2005.
A look at how Chinese poet and scholar, Xu Zhimo, developed a style that challenged the traditional poetic styles of China as well as China's ideas of freedom, morality, and love.
2,469 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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Abstract
This paper analyzes selected poems by Xu Zhimo in order to demonstrate the innovative ways that Xu Zhimo dealt with anxieties and solitudes, hesitations and doubts, nostalgia and expectancy, exile and dreams, all of which are constant themes in Romantic minds and works.
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"Xu Zhimo demonstrates a strong sense of self determination, especially with regards to love and free political will. His works span only a very short lifetime, despite Xu Zhimo?s well educated and well traveled life of profundity his life ended tragically at age thirty six, the victim of a plane crash. Xu Zhimo bears his soul through his short life in a literary career bound in modernity. He travels the road from romantic idealism to near the end of his life pessimism and heartbreak. It is not known how Xu Zhimo?s outlook or literary endeavors might have changed, had he lived longer but his story is often seen as one of unrequited love, repeatedly trapped by the propriety of his age."
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Modern Chinese Art, 1994.
Analyzes the prime influences on 20th century Chinese Art. Issues of identity & the relationship of the self to the state are determined primary. Focuses on the works of Xu Beihong & Lin Fengmian.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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"John Fitzgerald in his essay "The Invention of the Modern Chinese Self" considers ways in which the Chinese developed the concept of self, an idea that was first developed in Europe in modern times. The view taken currently differs from that of the earlier Republican era in Chinese history:
In the ethics of late-twentieth century China the naked, new-born self is born a citizen, a little helper and a pillar of society. . . The roles of citizen, little helper and pillar of society into which the child is welcomed today were not known to the child's forebears earlier this century when the identity of the self was up for negotiation along with the rest of the empire (Fitzgerald 25).
Issues of identity and the relationship of the self to the state serve.."
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