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Author Liu, Xinmin, 1952- author.

Title Signposts of self-realization : evolution, ethics, and sociality in modern chinese literature and film / by Xinmin Liu.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ideas, History, and Modern China ; 8
Ideas, history, and modern China.
Summary In Signposts of Self-Realization, Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of development of the individual via issues such as ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments; Part One An Introduction to Self-Realization in Modern China; Chapter 1 Sociality in Early Modern China: An Ontological Approach; Chapter2 Historicizing Social Development and Self-Realization; Part Two Ethical Imperative and Social Progress; Chapter3 Fountainheads of Change: Yan Fu's Tussle with Evolution; Chapter4 Empathetic Vision in Yu Dafu's Fiction; Chapter5 An Exile of Self-Disinheritance: Revisiting Qu Qiubai; Chapter6 Non-Epiphany in Ye Shaojun's Lyrical Vision; Part Three Post-Revolutionary Self-Remaking and Global Development.
Chapter7 How Steel Is Tempered: The Making of a Revolutionary HeroChapter8 Retributive Memories: Self-Realization in the Post-Mao Era; Chapter9 Zhang Chengzhi's Reinvention of Ethnic Identity; Glossary; Works Cited; Index.
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Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Chinese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Self-perception in motion pictures.
Self-perception in motion pictures.
Ethics in motion pictures.
Ethics in motion pictures.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Xinmin, Liu. Signposts of Self-Realization. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004196094 (DLC) 2013046907 (OCoLC)868981394
ISBN 9789004265356 (electronic book)
900426535X (electronic book)
9789004196094 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004196099 (hardback : acid-free paper)
1306493722 (e-book)
9781306493727 (e-book)