The poetics and politics of sensuality in China : the "fragrant and bedazzling" movement (1600-1930) / Xiaorong Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Xiaorong, author.

Series:

Cambria sinophone world series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic literature, Chinese--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, Chinese.

Sensuality in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 331 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2019]

Summary:

""Fragrant and bedazzling" (xiangyan) is a Chinese phrase synonymous with sensual and bewitching feminine beauty and, in literature, eroticism. Sensual literature, even to many scholars today, is morally suspect. Situated in China's recent past from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth century, this study has brought to light a literary tradition and underscored intellectual trends that have been neglected, marginalized, misunderstood, and even condemned. This book will be of value to scholars of literary and intellectual movements in late imperial and modern China, sexuality, gender, literary decadence, modernism, countercultures, and erotic literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Recluses in the arms of women" : the emergent non-official literati and their discourse in the late Ming

"Phantom clouds and rain": Wang Cihui's sensualist poetry as an alternative route to self-realization

Sensualism or sensationalism? : the textual politics of poems on beautiful women

"Food and sex are the principal desires" : the elevation of sensuality during the late Qing

"One thousand beauties" and "five hundred poets" : making monumental sensualist anthologies

"I love beautiful women as much as my country" : the political agenda of Fragrant and bedazzling magazine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781604979527

1604979526

OCLC:

1053134262

Publisher Number:

99980099044