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

Publication Info.	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018.
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Description	1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
	SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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.
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.
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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.
	Literature and morals.
	China.
	History.
Chronological Term	17th century
Subject	Short stories, Chinese -- History and criticism.
	Short stories, Chinese.
	Ethics in literature.
	Ethics in literature.
Chronological Term	1368-1912
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Sibau, Maria Franca. Reading for the moral. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018 9781438469898 (DLC) 2017031612 (OCoLC)1002302758
ISBN	9781438469911 (electronic book)
	1438469918 (electronic book)
	9781438469898 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	1438469896 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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

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