An Analysis of the Marriage Crisis of Modern Chinese Intellectuals in Regret for the Past
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.418How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Family culture, Regret for the Past, May Fourth Movement, individualism, marriage and family
- Abstract
This paper attempted a close study of the marriage tragedy in Lu Xun’s famous short story Regret for the Past with a focus on the contradictory relationship between traditional “family culture” and individualism of Chinese society in the 1920s. According to Lu Xun’s intention, the fictional tragedy can be extended to the common marriage and spiritual crisis among Chinese intellectuals in that period of social transition. In this case, the paper would explore the three layers of contradiction between the two opposite values, including the oppression of individuals by the family-centred mores of the society, the coexists of traditional family value and liberated individualism in people’s heart, and the division of emphasis on “family” and “individual” between the two parties in marriage. The research methods used in this paper include literature research and interdisciplinary research. This study aims to help the understanding of factors behind the marriage crisis from a historical and psycho-cultural perspective, reflect the cultural psychology that still affects modern Chinese people and their marriage, as well as provide a new perspective of modern China after the May Fourth Movement.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Longrun Wang PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/17 TI - An Analysis of the Marriage Crisis of Modern Chinese Intellectuals in Regret for the Past BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 184 EP - 188 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.418 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.418 ID - Wang2020 ER -