Title Reading for the moral : exemplarity and the Confucian moral imagination in seventeenth-century Chinese short fiction / Maria Franca Sibau

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture Contents 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 Summary Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism Chinese fiction -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism Literature and morals -- China -- History -- 17th century Short stories, Chinese -- History and criticism Ethics in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. Chinese fiction Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty Ethics in literature Literature and morals Qing Dynasty (China) Short stories, Chinese China Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438469911 1438469918

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