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Lu Xun’s Observation of "God in the human world"——an analysis of discourses relating to money in the fictions by Lu Xun

Zhou Li-na

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The economic activity and its significance that take money as key discourse is the impotant content in novels of Nahan and Panghuang.In the history of Chinese modern literature,the fiction text by Lu Xun is the earliest to construct the money discourses with a lot of modernity contains,and points at realism brightly,and puts up powerful humanistic force and practical force.Lu Xun had worry and indignation about the tendency that the relations among human are influenced by money much more than before.At the same time,Lu Xun thought that money was the ensurence of the individual existence and freedom in modern times,so the ideal which is divorced from economic base is a dream.The attention and pondering over the pervasion and influence from economic structure to human spirit structure manifest the depth of Lu Xun in wisdom thinking method.

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The economic activity and its significance that take money as key discourse is the impotant content in novels of Nahan and Panghuang.In the history of Chinese modern literature,the fiction text by Lu Xun is the earliest to construct the money discourses with a lot of modernity contains,and points at realism brightly,and puts up powerful humanistic force and practical force.Lu Xun had worry and indignation about the tendency that the relations among human are influenced by money much more than before.At the same time,Lu Xun thought that money was the ensurence of the individual existence and freedom in modern times,so the ideal which is divorced from economic base is a dream.The attention and pondering over the pervasion and influence from economic structure to human spirit structure manifest the depth of Lu Xun in wisdom thinking method.

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The economic activity and its significance that take money as key discourse is the impotant content in novels of Nahan and Panghuang.In the history of Chinese modern literature,the fiction text by Lu Xun is the earliest to construct the money discourses with a lot of modernity contains,and points at realism brightly,and puts up powerful humanistic force and practical force.Lu Xun had worry and indignation about the tendency that the relations among human are influenced by money much more than before.At the same time,Lu Xun thought that money was the ensurence of the individual existence and freedom in modern times,so the ideal which is divorced from economic base is a dream.The attention and pondering over the pervasion and influence from economic structure to human spirit structure manifest the depth of Lu Xun in wisdom thinking method.

Key concepts: Modernity, Dream, Realism, Literature, Indignation, Philosophy, China, Ideal (ethics)

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