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Author Guo, Li, 1979- author.

Title Women's Tanci fiction in late imperial and early twentieth-century China / Li Guo.

Publication Info. West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2015]

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Series Comparative cultural studies
Comparative cultural studies.
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Envisioning A Nascent Feminine Agency in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of Rebirth); Chapter Two: Disguised Scholar, Fox Spirit, and Moralism in Bishenghua (Blossom from the Brush); Chapter Three: Ethics, Filial Piety, and Narrative Sympathy in Mengyingyuan (Dream, Image, Destiny); Chapter Four: Gender, Spectatorship, and Literary Portraiture in Mengyingyuan; Chapter Five: Cross-Dressing as a Collective Act in Xianü qunying shi (A History of Women Warriors).
Chapter Six: Illustrating a New Woman in Fengliu zuiren (The Valiant and The Culprit)Conclusion; Appendix: Chinese Characters for Authors' Names, Terms, and Titles of Works; Works Cited; Index.
Summary In Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women's tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from, the orally performed version also called tanci). She explores the tradition through a comparative analysis of five seminal texts. Guo argues that Chinese women writers of the period position the personal within the diegesis in order to reconfigure their moral commitments and personal desires. By fashionin.
Subject Chinese fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Femmes dans la littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
Chinese fiction -- Women authors
Narration (Rhetoric)
Women in literature
Women.
Feminist theory.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Indexed Term Literature: history & criticism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Guo, Li, 1979- Women's Tanci fiction in late imperial and early twentieth-century China 9781557537133 (DLC) 2015014480 (OCoLC)902766945
ISBN 9781612493817 (electronic bk.)
1612493815 (electronic bk.)
9781557537133
1557537135
Standard No. DEBSZ 484750852

 
    
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