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The Heart of Time : Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction /

Knight, Sabina,

The Heart of Time : Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction / Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction Sabina Knight. - 1 online resource. - Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 274 Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077 . - Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 274. Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077. .

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Moral Agency and Narrative Storytelling -- Predicaments of Modernity in Late-Qing Novels, 1895 -1911 -- The Prison of Self-Consciousness in May Fourth Fiction -- Social Fiction: Must Context Entail Determinism? -- Moral Decision in Mao-Era Fiction -- Historical Trauma and Humanism in Post-Mao Realism -- Defiance and Fatalism in Roots-Seeking and Avant-Garde Fiction -- Self-Ownership and Capitalist Values in 1990 s Chinese Fiction -- The Heart of Time -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

9781684174423 9780674022676

10.1163/9781684174423 DOI


Chinese fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Ethics in literature.

PL2443

895.1/350938