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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820641003321

Autore

Liu Xinmin

Titolo

Signposts of Self-Realization : Evolution, Ethics and Sociality in Modern Chinese Literature and Film / / by Xinmin Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26535-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Ideas, History, and Modern China, , 1875-9394 ; ; Volume 8

Disciplina

895.109/353

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Chinese literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Self (Philosophy) in literature

Self-realization in literature

Self-perception in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Sociality in Early Modern China: An Ontological Appraisal -- 2 Historicizing Social Development and Self-Realization -- 3 Fountainheads of Change: Yan Fu’s Tussle with Evolution -- 4 Empathetic Vision in Yu Dafu’s Fiction -- 5 An Exile of Self-Disinheritance: Revisiting Qu Qiubai -- 6 Non-Epiphany in Ye Shaojun’s Lyrical Vision -- 7 How Steel Is Tempered: The Making of a Revolutionary Hero -- 8 Retributive Memories: Self-Realization in the Post-Mao Era -- 9 Zhang Chengzhi’s Reinvention of Ethnic Identity -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Signposts of Self-Realization , Xinmin Liu offers an ontological study of education and development of the individual self through the prisms of ethical progress and social evolution in the context of modern Chinese literature and film. Did self-realization in the Chinese modern follow the law of Social Darwinism: the biggest ego always won out? Is individualism always self-regarding, never other-regarding? How did the Greater I evolve out of the Lesser I socially and ethically? Confronting these questions, the author navigates through the terrains of paraphrastic translation, Buddhist nonself, lyrical epiphany,



redemptive memory and ethnic orality to map out an alternative path for the growth of a modern Chinese self.