Author:
Song, Mingwei, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.
Descriptionxiv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Prologue: The beginning of the journey -- "Green spring" and its modern forms: an introduction to youth discourse -- The adventures of old youth: late Qing travelers and reformers -- The bildungsroman of new youth: May fourth and the modern novel -- Writing youth into history: Mao Dun's early novels -- The flowering of life: Ba Jin's anarchist ideals and fictional representation -- The journey to interiority: subjectivism and the lyrical self -- The taming of the young : the socialist bildungsroman -- Epilogue: a utopia of youth.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-361) and index.
Note:"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological growth of youth with a symbolic allusion to national rejuvenation"-- Provided by publisher.
