Reading for the moral : exemplarity and the Confucian moral imagination in seventeenth-century Chinese short fiction /

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sibau, Maria Franca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018.
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Subjects:
1368-1912
Chinese fiction > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > History and criticism.
Chinese fiction > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism.
Literature and morals > China > History > 17th century.
Short stories, Chinese > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Roman chinois > 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming) > Histoire et critique.
Roman chinois > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et morale > Chine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Nouvelles chinoises > Histoire et critique.
Morale dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Chinese fiction.
Chinese fiction > Ming dynasty.
Literature and morals.
Qing Dynasty (China)
Short stories, Chinese.
China.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading for the moral
  • Filial quests
  • Filial transactions
  • The spectrum of loyalty
  • Female exemplarity and the violence of virtue
  • Interchangeable brothers
  • Friends in need and friends in deed.

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