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Pastoral Aspirations, Responsibilities and Strategies: A Novelist's Solution for the Moral Crisis in China

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摘要 Since the late 1970s China has implemented sweeping economic reforms for almost 40 years. At the same time, it has not officially adjusted its previous moral code. As a result, the country is now faced with a widespread moral crisis characterized by greed and anomie. To offer a remedy for this crisis in his novel The Door of the Sheep (1999), Li Peifu, a noted writer from Henan Province, creates a village leader intent on maintaining his authoritative moral position as a shepherd by restraining his corporeal desires and exercising his authority on his flock and for his flock. In a subsequent novel entitled pervasive moral disorientation in a village where nobody assumes a pastoral position. The present article analyzes these two novels in connection with the sociopolitical environment of contemporary China. Special attention will be paid to Li's interpretation of human selfishness as the root cause of the moral crisis and his attempt to offer a politically feasible and morally effective solution. Since the late 1970s China has implemented sweeping economic reforms for almost 40 years. At the same time, it has not officially adjusted its previous moral code. As a result, the country is now faced with a widespread moral crisis characterized by greed and anomie. To offer a remedy for this crisis in his novel The Door of the Sheep (1999), Li Peifu, a noted writer from Henan Province, creates a village leader intent on maintaining his authoritative moral position as a shepherd by restraining his corporeal desires and exercising his authority on his flock and for his flock. In a subsequent novel entitled pervasive moral disorientation in a village where nobody assumes a pastoral position. The present article analyzes these two novels in connection with the sociopolitical environment of contemporary China. Special attention will be paid to Li's interpretation of human selfishness as the root cause of the moral crisis and his attempt to offer a politically feasible and morally effective solution.
作者 Yunzhong SHU
出处 《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 2016年第2期169-183,共15页 中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究(英文版)
关键词 Li Peifu moral crisis human selfishness pastoral position self-restraint Li Peifu, moral crisis, human selfishness, pastoral position,self-restraint
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