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Orthodox passions : narrating filial love during the High Qing / Maram Epstein.
Van Pelt Library DS754.14 .E67 2019
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LIBRA DS754.14 .E67 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Maram, author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Filial piety.
- History.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--Sources.
- China.
- Filial piety--China--History.
- Filial piety in literature.
- Chinese literature--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- Chinese literature.
- Qing Dynasty (China).
- Genre:
- Sources.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Analyzes filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts from late Imperial China, including local gazetteers, biographical records, and fiction, to identify filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing texts and show the diversity of acts that constituted exemplary filial piety"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Taking filial love seriously
- Toward a new paradigm of emotions
- Changing constructions of filial virtue in local gazetteers
- Filial piety and the empowering of daughters during the Qing
- Rereading the sentimental world of Story of the Stone
- Rethinking interiority: mourning rites and the construction of the affective and ethical self in auto/biographical writings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674241176
- 0674241177
- OCLC:
- 1089258337
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