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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826881803321

Autore

Zhang Yu

Titolo

Interfamily Tanci writing in nineteenth-century China : bonds and boundaries / / Yu Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-5786-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

895.13009

Soggetti

Chinese fiction - History and criticism

Chinese literature - Women authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A case of interfamily Tanci reading and writing : Zheng Zhenhua, Zhou Yingfang, and Judaoren -- An alternative discourse of Qing : Zheng Zhenhua and the legacy of Mudan Ting -- The daughter's devotions and virtues -- Women and family: a new narrative of the Yue Fei legend in Jing Zhong Zhuan -- Nationalist readings of Jing Zhong Zhuan in shifting historical contexts -- Yu Xuan Cao : anxiety under camouflage of entertainment -- Epilogue : the hopeful age.

Sommario/riassunto

"Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read Tanci fiction as interrelated texts composed by three generations of members of one extended gentry family in nineteenth-century China. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read Tanci fiction as interrelated texts composed by three generations of members of one extended gentry family in nineteenth-century China" --