Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics

Wenjin Cui is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of New Hampshire. Her areas of specialization include modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, film studies, and critical theory.

• Introduction Chapter 1. Life and the Power of Self-Transcendence Chapter 2. The Generation of a “New Life” Chapter 3. Evolutionary Progress and In-Between Existence Chapter 4. A Biopolitical Vision of Chinese Modernity Chapter 5. Correlative Thinking and Its Modern Transformation Chapter 6. Overcoming Nihilism Chapter 7. The Negative Bond between Singular Existences Bibliography

"For those who have read Lu Xun, seek to understand him, and have been confounded by perplexing paradoxes in his work, this book will be illuminating and enlightening." Géraldine Fiss, University of Southern California"By recasting Lu Xun as engaged in affirmative biopolitics, this illuminating study discovers the evolutional and naturalistic foundation of modern Chinese culture. Lu Xun’s biopolitics sees biological life as a source of power and energy that fuels and enriches human culture and institution." Ban Wang, Stanford University