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

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9789004196094
  • ISBN-10: 9004196099
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: February 2014
  • Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.45 pounds
  • Page Count: 340

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