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Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction

Keith McMahon
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Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004085459

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A number of features characterize late Ming vernacular fiction as part of the general cultural expansion of that period. These features centrally include the exposition of sexual transgression and the function of containment, by which is meant the ideology of the control of desires. The late Ming writers are studiously devoted to illustrating minute, obscene, or erotic details that belief the decorum of the orthodox surface. However, this subversiveness of detail decreases in intensity from the late Ming to the early Qing, when values of containment are reinvoked. Related topics are: the theme of causality and its role in the story's mapping of the logic of adultery; adultery as an emblem of the woman's escape from containment and the use of the narrative topos of the gap in the wall as a locus of sexual transgression.

Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction

Keith McMahon
Causality and Containment in Seventeenth Century Chinese Fiction Book PDF

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004645349

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Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction by Keith McMahon Pdf

A number of features characterize late Ming vernacular fiction as part of the general cultural expansion of that period. These features centrally include the exposition of sexual transgression and the function of containment, by which is meant the ideology of the control of desires. The late Ming writers are studiously devoted to illustrating minute, obscene, or erotic details that belief the decorum of the orthodox surface. However, this subversiveness of detail decreases in intensity from the late Ming to the early Qing, when values of containment are reinvoked. Related topics are: the theme of causality and its role in the story's mapping of the logic of adultery; adultery as an emblem of the woman's escape from containment and the use of the narrative topos of the gap in the wall as a locus of sexual transgression.

Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China

Jing Shen
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Author : Jing Shen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739138571

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Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and nourished later theatrical traditions including jingju (Beijing Opera). Highly educated dramatists used chuanqi to present in artistic form personal, social, and political concerns of their time. There were six outstanding examples of these trends, considered masterpieces in their time and ever since. This study presents them in their social and cultural context during the long seventeenth century (1580D1700), the period of great experimentation and political transition. The romantic spirit and independent thinking of the late Ming elite stimulated the efflorescence of the chuanqi, and that legacy was inherited and investigated during the second half of the seventeenth-century in early Qing. Jing Shen examinees the texts to demonstrate that the playwrights appropriate, convert, or misinterpret other genres or literary works of enduring influence into their plays to convey subtle and subversive expressions in the fine margins between tradition and innovation, history and theatrical re-presentation. By exploring the components of romance in texts from late Ming to early Qing, Shen reveals creative readings of earlier themes, stories, plays and the changing idea of romanticism for chuanqi drama. This study also shows the engagement of literati playwrights in closed literary circles in which chuanqi plays became a tool by which literati playwrights negotiated their agency and social stature. The five playwrights whose works are analyzed in this book had different experiences pursuing government service as scholar-officials; some failed to achieve high office. But their common concerns and self-conscious literary choices reveal important insights into the culture of the seventeenth century, and into the sociopolitical implications of the chuanqi genre. In addition to classical Chinese commentaries on chuanqi drama, this book uses modern critical theories and terminology on Western drama to enhance the analysis of chuanqi plays.

Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China

Xiaoqiao Ling
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Author : Xiaoqiao Ling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684176410

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Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China by Xiaoqiao Ling Pdf

During the Manchu conquest of China (1640s–1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It was a directive that brought the physical body front and center as the locus of authority and control. Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers’ memories of lived experiences during the Ming–Qing cataclysm. For traditional Chinese men of letters, the body was an anchor of sensory perceptions and emotions. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events, unveiling how writers participated in an actual and imagined community of like-minded literary men. In literature from this period, the body symbolizes the process by which individual memories transform into historical knowledge that can be transmitted across generations. The ailing body interprets the Manchu presence as an epidemic to which Chinese civilization is not immune. The bleeding body, cast as an aesthetic figure, helps succeeding generations internalize knowledge inherited from survivors of dynastic conquest as a way of locating themselves in collective remembrance. This embodied experience of the past reveals literature’s mission of remembrance as, first and foremost, a moral endeavor in which literary men serve as architects of cultural continuity.

Carnival in China

Daria Berg
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Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004453401

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Carnival in China by Daria Berg Pdf

As if under the satirical magnifying glass, the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, an anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China. Using an array of sources—fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers—Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. Through their eyes, we gain access to their desires, dreams, fears and nightmares.

Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China

Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang
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Author : Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : 047208528X

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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China by Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang Pdf

Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu

Sentimental Education in Chinese History

Paolo Santangelo
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Author : Paolo Santangelo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004123601

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Sentimental Education in Chinese History by Paolo Santangelo Pdf

A pionering inquiry on the role, perception and representation of emotional sphere in traditional Chinese culture provides a fascinating contribution on a key anthropological problem, in order to understand not only pre-modern private history, but also contemporary Chinese society. The importance of this work goes beyond Chinese studies.

Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation

David Der-wei Wang,Shang Wei
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Author : David Der-wei Wang,Shang Wei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174140

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Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation by David Der-wei Wang,Shang Wei Pdf

"This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550–1644) and late Qing (1851–1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern imagination; and to rethink the “premodernity” of the late Ming and late Qing in the context of the end of the age of modernism. The chapters touch on a remarkably wide spectrum of works, some never before discussed in English, such as poetry, drama, full-length novels, short stories, tanci narratives, newspaper articles, miscellanies, sketches, familiar essays, and public and private historical accounts. More important, they intersect on issues ranging from testimony about dynastic decline to the negotiation of authorial subjectivity, from the introduction of cultural technology to the renewal of literary convention."

Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004340626

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Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature by Anonim Pdf

In Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature, the essay contributors explore how from the late Ming onward images of sexually transgressive women developed across a range of genres as women and men addressed tensions between past ideals and lived worlds.

Reading for the Moral

Maria Franca Sibau
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Author : Maria Franca Sibau
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438469898

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Reading for the Moral by Maria Franca Sibau Pdf

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time. Reading for the Moral offers an innovative reassessment of the nature of moral representation and exemplarity in Chinese vernacular fiction. Maria Franca Sibau focuses on two little-studied story collections published at the end of the Ming dynasty, Exemplary Words for the World (Xingshi yan, 1632) and Bell in the Still Night (Qingye zhong, c. 1645). Far from being tediously moralistic tales, these stories of loyal ministers, filial children, chaste widows, and selfless friends provide a deeper understanding of the five cardinal relationships central to Confucian ethics. They explore the inherent tension between what we might call textbook morality, on the one hand, and untidy everyday life, on the other. The stories often take a critical view of mechanical notions of retribution, countering it with the logic of virtue as its own reward. Conflict between passion and duty is typically resolved in favor of duty, a duty redefined with a palpable sense of urgency. In constructing vernacular representations of moral exemplars from the recent historical past rather than from remote or fictitious antiquity, the story compilers show how these virtues are not abstract or monolithic norms, but play out within the contingencies of time and space. “Reading for the Moral is an entertaining and insightful exploration of how seriously moralistic writers really were in a time that became notorious for its supposed immorality. Sibau’s encyclopedic knowledge of both original texts and relevant secondary literature make this an excellent source of inspiration for further research. This book is an outstanding accomplishment.” — Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375

Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen
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Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 0521855594

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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375 by Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen Pdf

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China

Yu Zhang
Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth Century China Book PDF

Author : Yu Zhang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498557863

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Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China by Yu Zhang Pdf

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan (1843), Yu xuan cao (1894), and Jing zhong zhuan (1895), as interrelated texts composed by three generation of members from one extended gentry family in South China. Based on the framework of family bonds, this book uses the three tanci works, authored by a mother, her daughter, and a nephew, to examine the history of how the changing aesthetics of tanci developed over China’s turbulent nineteenth century. It also demonstrates how the three writers used the genre of tanci to blur the boundaries of orthodox Confucian norms, in order to depict the evolving nature of gendered power relations at the dawn of China’s modernity.

Transgender China

H. Chiang
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Author : H. Chiang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137082503

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Transgender China by H. Chiang Pdf

This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.

Stories Old and New

Anonim
Stories Old and New Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801285

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Stories Old and New by Anonim Pdf

Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

Body, Subject, and Power in China

Angela Zito,Tani E. Barlow
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Author : Angela Zito,Tani E. Barlow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0226987264

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Body, Subject, and Power in China by Angela Zito,Tani E. Barlow Pdf

For the first time, this volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists, and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed scholarly ties with the United States, these essays yield valuable new insights not only for China studies but also, by extension, for non-Asian cultural criticism. Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities, and discourses of power through a variety of sources that include written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews, and observations. Taken together, the essays show that bodies in China have been classified, represented, discussed, ritualized, gendered, and eroticized in ways as rich and multiple as those described in critical histories of the West. Silk robes, rocks, winds, gestures of bowing, yin yang hierarchies, and cross-dressing have helped create experiences of the body specific to Chinese historical life. By pointing to multiple examples of reimagining subjectivity and renegotiating power, the essays encourage scholars to avoid making broad generalizations about China and to rethink traditional notions of power, subject, and bodiliness in light of actual Chinese practices. Body, Subject, and Power in China is at once an example of the changing face of China studies and a work of importance to the entire discipline of cultural studies.