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

by K. Foster

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349456802
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

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