TY  - BOOK
AU  - Xinmin,Liu
TI  - Signposts of Self-Realization: Evolution, Ethics and Sociality in Modern Chinese Literature and Film 
T2  - Ideas, History, and Modern China
SN  - 9789004265356
AV  - PL2303 .X5594 2014
U1  - 895.109/353 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Chinese literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Self (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Self-realization in literature
KW  - Self-perception in motion pictures
KW  - Ethics in motion pictures
KW  - Ethics in literature
N1  - Includes index; Preliminary Material -- 1 Sociality in Early Modern China: An Ontological Appraisal -- 2 Historicizing Social Development and Self-Realization -- 3 Fountainheads of Change: Yan Fu’s Tussle with Evolution -- 4 Empathetic Vision in Yu Dafu’s Fiction -- 5 An Exile of Self-Disinheritance: Revisiting Qu Qiubai -- 6 Non-Epiphany in Ye Shaojun’s Lyrical Vision -- 7 How Steel Is Tempered: The Making of a Revolutionary Hero -- 8 Retributive Memories: Self-Realization in the Post-Mao Era -- 9 Zhang Chengzhi’s Reinvention of Ethnic Identity -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - In Signposts of Self-Realization , Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film. Did self-realization in the Chinese modern follow the law of Social Darwinism: the biggest ego always won out? Is individualism always self-regarding, never other-regarding? How did the Greater I evolve out of the Lesser I socially and ethically? Confronting these questions, the author navigates through the terrains of paraphrastic translation, Buddhist nonself, lyrical epiphany, redemptive memory and ethnic orality to map out an alternative path for the growth of a modern Chinese self
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004265356
ER  -