TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hegel,Robert E.
TI  - The Novel in Seventeenth- Century China
SN  - 9780231938747
PY  - 1981///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Divisions of Chinese History by Dynastic Rule --; Conversion Table of Wade-Giles and Pinyin Systems for Romanizing Chinese --; 1. The World Behind the Novel: China in the Seventeenth Century --; 2. The Novelists' World: Tradition and Innovation --; 3. Political Realities in Fictional Garb: Past as Metaphor for the Present --; 4. Man as Responsible Being: The Individual, Social Role, and Heaven --; 5. Self as Mind or as Body: Fictional Examinations of Identity --; 6. Disaster and Renewal in an Ordered Universe --; 7. Literary Innovation and the Legacy of Seventeenth-Century Novels --; Appendix I. Literary Source Materials for Several Seventeenth-Century Novels --; Appendix II. Textual Histories of Various Seventeenth-Century Novels --; Glossary --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Studies China during the 17th century by looking at the nation behind the literature. Looks at traditions, innovation and the legacy of the novels
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/hege93874
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ER  -