ASIA 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mao Zedong, Cannibalism, May Fourth Movement
Document Summary
Everything requires careful consideration if one is to understand it. In ancient times people often ate human beings. History has no chronology- powerful way to justify government by writing down. The reality is no longer there in his understanding. What is reality after deconstructed and how is it represented in word. How to construct new meaning in words in this new era of enlightenment. (leftover content) Literary work and writers in constant reconstruction and rewriting. Image/icon - not a fixed image but can be appropriated and reconstructed to serve many purposes. Mao zedong viewed him as nothing less than the intellectual forefather of the chinese communist revolution . Late 1950s: a critic of a feudalist society and feudal morals and teachings to be cannibalistic - make him severable to communist genre. He uses many noble figures in his writing, represent different images of figures. Modernist reading of lu xun: reformulating language and meaning.
