Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Bildungsroman/Chengzhang Xiaoshuo as a Literary Genre; Chapter Two The Changing Patterns of the Bildungsroman in Modern Chinese Literature; Chapter Three Fallen Youth: A Solitary Outcast; Chapter Four Fallen Youth: A Trembling Loner; Chapter Five Tragic and Parodistic Bildungsroman; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The focus of this study is coming of age in troubled Cultural Revolutionary times as portrayed in contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua, along with a comprehensive overview of the Bildungsroman in China and the west
