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ALLEGORIZING THE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN MODERN CHINA: QIAN ZHONGSHU’S PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL “FORTRESS BESIEGE”

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Huang Y. H.
World Literature Studies
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2018
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vol. 10
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issue 2
80 – 90
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Beginning with an overview of the interconnection between literature and philosophy in modern Chinese literature, this paper analyses the novel Fortress Besieged (1947) written by Qian Zhongshu, a polyglot Chinese scholar of East-West comparative literature and philosophy. It compares the novel’s overarching allegory, i. e. a fortress besieged, in juxtaposition with the philosophical allegories about the mutability and limitations of human life. It concludes with a reflection on the seminal influence of this novel in contemporary Chinese society where “fortress besieged” has become an everyday word referring to one’s existential crisis.
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