Books by Gloria Davies

Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.

What can we do about China? Davies pursues this inquiry through a range of contemporary topics, including the changing fortunes of radicalism, the peculiarities of Chinese postmodernism, shifts in official discourse, attempts to revive Confucianism, and the historically problematic engagement of Chinese intellectuals with Western ideas.