Mad Man's Diary

The diary form was inspired by Nikolai Gogol's short story 'Diary of a Madman', as was the idea of the madman who sees reality more clearly than those around him. The "madman" sees "Cannibalism'' both in his family and the village around him, and he then finds cannibalism in the Confucian classics which had long been credited with a humanistic concern for the mutual obligations of society, and thus for the superiority of Confucian civilization. The story was read as an ironic attack on traditional Chinese culture and a call for a New Culture.

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