摘要
Lee, Haiyan, The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination. Stanford, CA： Stanford University Press, 2014. 376pp. US$50.00 cloth. ISBN： 9780804785914. DOI： 10.3868/s010-004-015-0037-9The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination is an ambitious project combining literary-political, historical, and sociological approaches in its inquiry into the moral crisis in contemporary Chinese society. Invoking the trope of ＂the stranger＂ in literary, visual, and artistic texts, Haiyan Lee examines the modem Chinese social and cultural subjectivity in its historical encounters with the stranger. A discursive space arises from such encounters, where the spotlight is on questions of gender, class, race, ideology, politics, etc., that reveal the urgent need to confront the moral predicament in contemporary China and that demonstrate the meaningfulness of literature as the ＂final cordon sanitaire between us and the banality of evil＂ （p. 302）.
Lee, Haiyan, The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination. Stanford, CA： Stanford University Press, 2014. 376pp. US$50.00 cloth. ISBN： 9780804785914. DOI： 10.3868/s010-004-015-0037-9The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination is an ambitious project combining literary-political, historical, and sociological approaches in its inquiry into the moral crisis in contemporary Chinese society. Invoking the trope of ＂the stranger＂ in literary, visual, and artistic texts, Haiyan Lee examines the modem Chinese social and cultural subjectivity in its historical encounters with the stranger. A discursive space arises from such encounters, where the spotlight is on questions of gender, class, race, ideology, politics, etc., that reveal the urgent need to confront the moral predicament in contemporary China and that demonstrate the meaningfulness of literature as the ＂final cordon sanitaire between us and the banality of evil＂ （p. 302）.
