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Developmental Fairy Tales : Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture.
Title:
Developmental Fairy Tales : Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture.
Author:
Jones, Andrew F.
ISBN:
9780674061033
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Development of Modern Chinese Literature -- 1. The Iron House of Narrative: Lu Xun and the Late Qing Fiction of Evolutionary Adventure -- 2. Inherit the Wolf: Lu Xun, Natural History, and Narrative Form -- 3. The Child as History in Republican China: A Discourse on Development -- 4. Playthings of History -- 5. A Narrow Cage: Lu Xun, Eroshenko, and the Modern Chinese Fairy Tale -- Appendix: "A Narrow Cage" by Vasilii Eroshenko -- Glossary of Selected Chinese and Japanese Terms -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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