TY - BOOK AU - Knight,Sabina TI - The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction T2 - Harvard East Asian Monographs SN - 9781684174423 AV - PL2443 U1 - 895.1/350938 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard University Asia Center KW - Chinese fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Ethics in literature N1 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684174423 ER -