Chinese Literature and the Child: Children and Childhood in Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781349456802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 251 str.

K. Foster

Opis

Tracking ideas of the child in Chinese society across the twentieth century, Kate Foster places fictional children within the story of the nation in a study of tropes and themes which range from images of strength and purity to the murderous and amoral.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements PART I Introduction 1. The Literary Child 2. Children of Reality and Fiction PART II 3. Child of Sorrow: The Arrested Infant 4. Corrupt Seed: The Tainted Progeny 5. As Happy as Orphans: The Abandoned Child 6. My Self Reclaimed: The Storytellers Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Kate Foster is an independent scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese literature.