Lu Xun＇s View of the Awakening of the Chinese People--Was There Really an ＂Epistemological Break＂？

作     者：Chiu-yee Cheung Chiu-yee Cheung

作者机构：Division of Chinese School of Humanities and Social Science Nanyang Technological University Singapore 639798 Singapore 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第6卷第3期

页      面：410-425页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0502[文学-外国语言文学] 01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 05[文学] 010108[哲学-科学技术哲学] 

主　　题：Lu Xun Chinese "national character" epistemological break 

摘      要：It has been argued that, starting in the late 1920s, Lu Xun＇s intellectual development underwent a significant transformation constituting what the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser has termed an ＂epistemological break.＂ Some of the explicitly more positive comments about the masses that Lu Xun made in his later years have been used to demonstrate this point. However, the existence of such a ＂break＂ is still debatable, and a detailed examination of Lu Xun＇s apparently optimistic comments reveals that Lu Xun possessed a more sophisticated understanding of the masses and the Chinese people. His understanding was informed by the concept of ＂national character.＂ This paper attempts to demonstrate the consistency of Lu Xun＇s view of the masses and the Chinese people and to resolve an apparent self-contradiction in Lu Xun＇s arguments.