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1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) |
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Comparative cultural studies |
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Comparative cultural studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Open access. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Women's Literary Tanci -- Chapter One. Vernacular Literacy, Cross-Dressing, and Feminine Authority in Zhu Suxian's Yulianhuan (Linked Rings of Jade) -- Chapter Two. Among Women : Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu's Liuhuameng (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers) -- Chapter Three. Gender, Syncretism, and Female Exemplarity.: Jin Fangquan's Qizhenzhuan (A Tale of Exceptional Chastity) -- Chapter Four. "Beyond Rouge and Powder" : Rewriting Female Talent in Sun Deying's Jinyuyuan (Affinity of the Golden Fish) -- Chapter Five. A New Romance of the Nation-State : On Wang Oushang's Zixuji (A Tale of Vacuity) -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 4, 2023). |
| Summary |
"Women's tanci, or "plucking rhymes," are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women's representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864), as well as their depictions of warfare and social unrest. Women tanci authors' redefinition of female exemplarity within the Confucian orthodox discourses of virtue, talent, chastity, and political integrity could be bourgeoning expressions of female exceptionalism and could have foreshadowed protofeminist ideals of heroism. They establish a realistic tenor in affirming feminine domestic authority, and open up spaces for discussions of "womanly becoming," female exceptionalism, and shifting family power structures. The vernacular mode underlying these texts yields productive possibilities of gendered self-representations, bodily valences, and dynamic performances of sexual roles. The result is a vernacular discursive frame that enables women's appropriation and refashioning of orthodox moral values as means of self-affirmation and self-realization. Validations of women's political activism and loyalism to the nation attest to tanci as a premium vehicle for disseminating progressive social incentives to popular audiences. Women's tanci marks early modern writers' endeavors to carve out a space of feminine becoming, a discursive arena of feminine appropriation, reinvention, and boundary-crossings. In this light, women's tanci portrays gendered mobility through depictions of a heroine's voyages or social ascent, and entails a forward-moving historical progression toward a more autonomous and vested model of feminine subjectivity"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Chinese literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Chinese literature -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism.
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Narrative poetry, Chinese -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Identité de genre dans la littérature.
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Littérature chinoise -- 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) -- Histoire et critique.
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Femmes dans la littérature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
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Chinese literature
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Chinese literature -- Women authors
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Gender identity in literature
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Qing Dynasty (China)
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Women in literature
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Women.
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Feminist theory.
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Gender roles.
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Role behavior.
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| Chronological Term |
1644-1912
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| Indexed Term |
Literature: history & criticism |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1612496415 9781612496412 (OCoLC)1203136630 |
| ISBN |
161249661X (electronic book) |
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9781612496610 (electronic bk.) |
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9781612496603 (ePub) |
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1612496601 (ePub) |
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1612496415 |
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9781612496412 |
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161249644X |
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9781612496443 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000069405387 |
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