- 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
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 274
The Heart of Time
Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
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