Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China

Bonds and Boundaries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-13
Mått159 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor270
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498557856

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List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. A Case of Interfamily Tanci Reading and Writing: Zheng Zhenhua, Zhou Yingfang, and Judaoren2. An Alternative Discourse of qing: Zheng Zhenhua and the Legacy of Mudan ting3. The Daughter’s Devotions and Virtues4. Women and Family: A New Narrative of the Yue Fei Legend in Jing zhong zhuan5. Nationalist Readings of Jing zhong zhuan in Shifting Historical Contexts6. Yu xuan cao: Anxiety under Camouflage of EntertainmentEpilogue: The Hopeful AgeBibliographyAbout the Author

. . . .Zhang’s book has brought new dimensions to the study of tanci, connecting what has generally been held as a particular corner of traditional Chinese culture, to the larger world of nineteenth century China. It is a worthwhile reading not only for tanci experts, but also for students of Chinese literature and history in the nineteenth century in general. More importantly, it calls for further exploration of the fertile soil of the literary culture centered on tanci.

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