Uneasy Narrator Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern

Name: Uneasy Narrator Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern
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ISBN: 9780197136119

ISBN-10: 0197136117

ISBN-13: 9780197136119

Edition: 1995

Authors: Henry Y. H. Zhao

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In the hierarchy of Chinese culture, fiction once occupied a low position. But in twentieth-century China, fiction has become a highly important cultural discourse. This book offers a historical analysis of the narrative form of Chinese fiction, and traces in detail its development from the traditional mode to the modern. By means of this formal analysis, the book tries to find the root cause for this development in the changing structure of Chinese culture in the early years of the twentieth century.

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/28/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



How to Use the Appendixes


Introduction: A Theoretical Outline



Chinese Vernacular Fiction Until the Early Twentieth Century



Chinese Vernacular Fiction



Late Qing Fiction



May Fourth Fiction



The Narratological Development of Chinese Vernacular Fiction



Narrator's Position



Narrator and Character



Narrative Time



A Summary



A Cultural Study of Chinese Vernacular Fiction



The Cultural Status of Vernacular Fiction



The Fortune of Vernacular Fiction Writers



Cultural Paradigms for Vernacular Fiction



Western Influence on Vernacular Fiction


Epilogue: After May Fourth


Appendix I: Glossary


Appendix II: Abbreviations (Bibliography of Primary Sources)


Appendix III: Bibliography of Secondary Sources


Index