The Expressions of Self in Wang Tao#39;s 王韜Manyou Suilu 漫遊隨錄.pdfVIP

《中國文化研究所學報》 Journal of Chinese Studies No. 49 - 2009 The Expressions of Self in Wang Tao’s 王韜 Manyou Suilu 漫遊隨錄 Tsui Wai The University of Edinburgh Introduction 1 The expression of self, closely related to the trend of subjectivism and individualism, is an essential element of research into late Qing (1840–1911) literature as it is always 2 regarded as a distinct feature of pre-modern and modern Chinese writings. Traditionally in China, it was the “common features and not the uniqueness of an individual” that drew 3 attention, until the notion of self expression first assumed great significance among the 4 May Fourth writers. The idea, however, had begun to develop quite a long time before 1 Leo Ou-fan Lee, “The Solitary Traveler: Images of the Self in Modern Chinese Literature,” in Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, ed. Robert E. Hegel and Richard C. Hessney (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), p. 283. 2 For example, Kirk A Denton, The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), chap. 1; Robert E. Hegel, “Introduction: An Exploration of the Chinese Literary Self,” in Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, pp. 3–30. 3 Robert E. Hegel, “Introduction,” p. 6. 4 The most typical example is Yu Dafu 郁達夫 (1896–1945) who suggested in a book introducing