In 1923 Qu Qiu-bai returned from Soviet Russia to China and gradually aligned himself with the power nucleus of Chinese Communist Party as an important political theorist within the Party. Much of the polyphonic elements exemplary in Qu's thoughts, as seen in his earlier writings, had given way noticeably. As purported by mainstream academic queries, Qu's metamorphosis into a Bolshevik had often been accounted for his nevertheless brief stay at the Soviet Russia. The present study, however, confers a dissimilar view in attempting to locate the polyphonic registers in Qu's thoughts. It is found that Qu's thoughts had been characterized by a strong sense of polyphonic nature throughout, whether in his earlier or later works. / In resembling the overlooked complexity of Qu's thoughts, Chapter 3 goes on to inquire how Qu's construction of subjectivity is determined by his specific perspective of history---one which comprised of a synthesis of Creative Evolutionism and Dialectic Materialism. Such construction of subjectivity is important in understanding Qu's contested presence and agency in revolutionary political situations of the early 20th century. Chapter 3.1, thereafter, locates the relevance of Qu's construction of subjectivity to his notion of "orphan pushed away from track" in a re-reading of his widely acknowledged essay "Preface to Lu Xun's Collected Essays." This reading is coupled with a discussion of Qu's "Travel Notes on New Russia" through which Qu's specifications of "suicide" and spatial imagery of the heterotopias will be expounded. Working upon research outcome of this coupled query, a close reading of Qu's confessional note "Superfluous Words" will serves to elucidate Qu's proposition of a negated subjectivity. Chapter 3.4 gives a comparative analysis of the later political lives of Qu and Nikolai Bukharin. It attempts to establish that the outright negation of subjectivity is an implicit tendency in historical materialism. Lastly, Chapter 4 attempts to illustrate Qu's revolutionary subjectivity and his specific notion of pendulum time in recourse to the tropes of pendulum movements: "Revolution/Work," and "Love/Freedom." / The study begins with a topic of research that mainstream academic queries left mostly unanswered: namely, Qu's appropriations of Bergonism, the Yogacara School and Anarchism exemplary in his early writings. This line of query delineates how the 3 major traditions of thoughts compositely engaged Qu in his approach of Bolshevik political practices and Dialectic Materialism. On the basis of this, the study further examines the trajectory how Qu observed in his endorsement of Dialectic Materialism over Bergon's Creative Evolutionism (L'evolution Cretienne). The study also finds that such a pendulum movement from Philosophy of Life towards Dialectic Materialism largely concurred the thoughts and discourses of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a contemporary of Qu. Following this, the study compares the two men's notions and problematic of "the Intellectuals". A comparative analysis of Qu's theorization of the "Historical Tool" and Gramsci's "The Modern Prince" is offered at this part of study. / 張歷君. / Adviser: Lee Ou-Fan; Wang Wai Ching. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3146. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Zhang Lijun.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_344100 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Contributors | 張歷君., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Cultural Studies., Zhang, Lijun. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | Chinese, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, theses |
| Format | electronic resource, microform, microfiche, 1 online resource (viii, 256 p.) |
| Coverage | China |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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