The Limits of Realism
  Acknowledgments

 expand section1—  Introduction:  Writing about Others
 expand section2—  "A Literature of Blood and Tears":  May Fourth Theories of Literary Realism
 collapse section3—  Lu Xun, Ye Shaojun, and the Moral Impediments to Realism
 •Lu Xun:  The Violence of Observation
 •Ye Shaojun:  Pity, Sincerity, and the Divisive Power of Narrative
 expand section4—  Mao Dun, Zhang Tianyi, and the Social Impediments to Realism
  5—  Beyond Realism:  The Eruption of the Crowd

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