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Knight describes modern Chinese fiction’s unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the 20th century.

The Heart of Time

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 01/01/2007
      ISBN13: 9780674022676, 978-0674022676
      ISBN10: 067402267X
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      Geography Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Book Synopsis
      Knight describes modern Chinese fiction’s unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the 20th century.

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