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Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China : Bonds and Boundaries

By Yu Zhang

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
9781498557863, 9781498557856
LCC
PL2415 .Z436 2018
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5382194 bytes)
Pages
271\0
Time added
2023-08-19 15:27:08
Chinese fiction-History and criticism. ; Chinese l

Description

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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