Reading for the moral : exemplarity and the Confucian moral imagination in seventeenth-century Chinese short fiction
Chinese fiction Ethics in literature Literature and morals Short stories, Chinese Qing Dynasty (China) Criticism, interpretation, etc e-böcker History
State University of New York Press
2018
EISBN 9781438469911
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.
Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.
Filial quests.
Filial transactions.
The spectrum of loyalty.
Female exemplarity and the violence of virtue.
Interchangeable brothers.
Friends in need and friends in deed.
Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.
