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03639aam a2200505 i 4500 001 7C707CBA840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170829t20182018nyuah b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017031612 020 $a 1438469896 020 $a 9781438469898 035 $a (OCoLC)1002302758 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d EAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a PL2436 $b .S55 2018 082 00 $a 895.13/4609 $2 23 100 1 $a Sibau, Maria Franca, $e author. 245 10 $a Reading for the moral : $b exemplarity and the Confucian moral imagination in seventeenth-century Chinese short fiction / $c Maria Franca Sibau. 264 1 $a Albany : $b State University of New York Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 231 pages : $b illustrations, facsimiles ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Reading for the moral -- Filial quests -- Filial transactions -- The spectrum of loyalty -- Female exemplarity and the violence of virtue -- Interchangeable brothers -- Friends in need and friends in deed. 520 $a Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-studied story collections published at the end of the Ming dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1932) and Bell in the Still Night (Qingye zhong, c. 1645). Far from being tediously moralistic tales, these stories of loyal ministers, filial children, chaste widows, and selfless friends provide a deeper understanding of the five cardinal relationships central to Confucian ethics. They explore the inherent tension between what we might call textbook morality, on the one hand, and untidy everyday life, on the other. The stories often take a critical view of mechanical notions of retribution, countering it with the logic of virtue as its own reward. Conflict between passion and duty is typically resolved in favor of duty redefined with a palpable sense of urgency. In constructing vernacular representations of moral exemplars from the recent historical past rather than from remote or fictitious antiquity, the story compilers show how these virtues are not abstract or monolithic norms, but play out within the contingencies of time and space--back cover. 650 0 $a Chinese fiction $y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Chinese fiction $y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and morals $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Short stories, Chinese $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Ethics in literature. 650 7 $a Chinese fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857362 650 7 $a Chinese fiction $x Ming dynasty. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01906858 650 7 $a Ethics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00915860 650 7 $a Literature and morals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000085 650 7 $a Qing Dynasty (China) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01696773 650 7 $a Short stories, Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01117143 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 648 7 $a 1368-1912 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021024330.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7C707CBA840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search