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

By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese fiction express the desire for freedom as well...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knight, Sabina, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 274.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 1990s Chinese fiction. 
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