Causality And Containment In Seventeenth Century Chinese Fiction

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Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004085459
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction written by Keith McMahon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645349
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction written by Keith McMahon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China

Author : Xiaoqiao Ling
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176417
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China written by Xiaoqiao Ling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China

Author : Jing Shen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073913857X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China written by Jing Shen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Carnival in China

Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453407
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Carnival in China written by Daria Berg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Chun-shu Chang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472085286
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China written by Chun-shu Chang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu

Sentimental Education in Chinese History

Author : Paolo Santangelo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004123601
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Sentimental Education in Chinese History written by Paolo Santangelo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174147
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation written by David Der-wei Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

Reading for the Moral

Author : Maria Franca Sibau
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438469896
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Reading for the Moral written by Maria Franca Sibau and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Sibaus 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

Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340629
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Stories Old and New

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580128X
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Stories Old and New written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Snakes' Legs

Author : Martin W. Huang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864336
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Snakes' Legs written by Martin W. Huang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels despite their poor reputation as a genre? What motivated readers to read them? How should we characterize the nature of the relationship between sequels and rewritings? Contributors to this volume illuminate these and other questions, and the collection as a whole offers a comprehensive consideration of this vigorous genre while suggesting fascinating new directions for research. Xushu as a discursive practice reinforces the paradox that innovation is impossible without imitation. It presents us with fertile ground for studying the intricate ties that bind the writer and reader of traditional Chinese fiction: the writer of xushu is always self-consciously assuming the dual role of author and reader and in the writing process must consider both the work in progress as well as its precursor(s). Snakes' Legs contains detailed discussions of some representative xushu works from the late Ming and Qing periods, many of which have received little scholarly attention. It will shed light on the development of Chinese fiction and the various textual practices in traditional China as well as account for the genre’s continuing vitality in modern times. Contributors: Robert E. Hegel, Siao-chen Hu, Martin W. Huang, Keith McMahon, Qiancheng Li, Ying Wang, Ellen Widmer, Laura H. Wu, Shuhui Yang.

Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China

Author : Stephen Roddy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731317
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China written by Stephen Roddy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication.

Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China

Author : Yu Zhang
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498557864
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China by : Yu Zhang

Download or read book Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China written by Yu Zhang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521855594
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375 written by Kang-i Sun Chang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Transgender China

Author : H. Chiang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113708250X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Transgender China written by H. Chiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Body, Subject, and Power in China

Author : Angela Zito
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226987262
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Body, Subject, and Power in China written by Angela Zito and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-05-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.