The heart of time : moral agency in twentieth-century Chinese fiction / Sabina Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Sabina, 1966-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 274.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 274

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese fiction.

Ethics in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Moral agency in twentieth-century Chinese fiction

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Part I Agency, Modernity, and Narrative

1 Moral Agency and Narrative Storytelling 15

Part II The Wages of Freedom in Modern Chinese Fiction

2 Predicaments of Modernity in Late-Qing Novels: 1895-1911 51

3 The Prison of Self-Consciousness in May Fourth Fiction 73

4 Social Fiction: Must Context Entail Determinism? 104

Part III Moral Responsibility in Fiction from the People's Republic

5 Moral Decision in Mao-Era Fiction 133

6 Historical Trauma and Humanism in Post-Mao Realism 162

7 Defiance and Fatalism in Roots-Seeking and Avant-Garde Fiction 191

8 Self-Ownership and Capitalist Values in 1990s Chinese Fiction 222

Epilogue: The Heart of Time 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-292) and index.

ISBN:

067402267X

OCLC:

68624141

Publisher Number:

9780674022676