Developmental fairy tales evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture /

Jones, Andrew F.

Developmental fairy tales evolutionary thinking and modern Chinese culture / [electronic resource] : Andrew F. Jones. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. - 259 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The "development" of modern Chinese literature -- The iron house of narrative: Lu Xun and the late Qing fiction of evolutionary adventure -- Inherit the wolf: Lu Xun, natural history, and narrative form -- The child as history in republican China: a discourse on development -- Playthings of history -- A narrow cage: Eroshenko, Lu Xun, and the modern Chinese fairy tale.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780674061033 (electronic bk.)




Lu, Xun, 1881-1936.
Eroshenko, Vasilii, 1890-1952.


Chinese literature--History and criticism.
Literature and society--China.
Fairy tales--History and criticism.--China
Modernism (Literature)--China.


Electronic books.

PL2265 / .J66 2011

895.1/09355