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.

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