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ISBN
9780674022676

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN-10
067402267X
ISBN-13
9780674022676
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038642899

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
306 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Heart of Time : Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Asian / Chinese, Asian / General, Asia / China, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Author
Sabina Knight
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-015383
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
274
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
895.1/350938
Table Of Content
Introduction Part I: Agency, Modernity, and Narrative 1. Moral Agency and Narrative in Storytelling Part II: The Wages of Freedom in Modern Chinese Fiction 2. Predicaments of Modernity in Late-Qing Novels: 1895-1911 3. The Prison of Self-Consciousness in May Fourth Fiction 4. Social Fiction: Must Context Entail Determinism? Part III: Moral Responsibility in Fiction from the People's Republic 5. Moral Decision in Mao-Era Fiction 6. Historical Trauma and Humanism in Post-Mao Realism 7. Defiance and Fatalism in Roots-Seeking and Avant-Garde Fiction 8. Self-Ownership and Capitalist Values in 1990s Chinese Fiction Epilogue: The Heart of Time Reference Matter Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Knight describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the 20th century., 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 as fears of attendant responsibilities and abuses? How does it depict struggles for and against freedom? How do the texts allow for or deny the possibility of freedom and agency? By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the twentieth century. She links these changes to representations of time and to enduring commitments to human-heartedness and social justice. Although Chinese fiction may contain some of the most disconsolate pages in the twentieth century's long literature of disenchantment, it also bespeaks, Knight argues, a passion for freedom and moral responsibility. Responding to ongoing conflicts between the claims of modernity and the resources of past traditions, these stories and novels are often dominated by challenges to human agency. Yet read with sensitivity to traditional Chinese conceptions of moral experience, their testimony to both the promises of freedom and the failure of such promises opens new perspectives on moral agency.
LC Classification Number
PL2443.K64 2006

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