The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

by Sabina Knight

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067402267X
• ISBN13: 9780674022676
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"