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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature / Wai-yee Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Wai-yee, author.
- Series:
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 92.
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN ; 9789004407077.
- Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 92
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Male Voices Appropriating Feminine Diction 12
- Passing for a Woman 14
- A Woman's Choices: Transparent and Hidden Analogies 25
- Feminine Diction and Political Readings 32
- Negotiating Political Choices 46
- Forging Literary Communities through a Poetics of Indirectness 61
- Revelations through Hiddenness 96
- 2 Female Voices Appropriating Masculine Diction 100
- Revisiting Feminine Diction 101
- The Terms of Historical Engagement 112
- Heroes: Failures and Fantasies 130
- When Is a Sword a Sword? 146
- The Rhetoric of Friendship 157
- Gender Discontent 171
- Women on Writing 184
- "Our Husband is China" 197
- 3 Heroic Transformations 201
- Contexts of Literary History 203
- The Daughter's Patrimony in an Age of Disorder 207
- Female Hero as Indictment 230
- Female Hero as Apology 241
- Taming the Female Hero 254
- Inventing the Female Hero 268
- Female Heroes and National Salvation 293
- 4 The Fate of Pleasures and Passions 295
- Defending Pleasures and Passions 296
- Romantic Moralists 307
- Writing About Women, Writing Women 314
- Concubine as Martial Ghost: Wang Sun and Zhou Lianggong 319
- Courtesan as Poet-Historian: Bian Sai and Wu Weiye 331
- The Hidden Loyalist: Liu Rushi and Qian Qianyi 356
- Salvageable Passions 387
- 5 Victimhood and Agency 391
- The Discursive Space Defining the Abducted Woman 393
- Variables of Poetic Traces 405
- Private and Public Passions 429
- Political and Apolitical Chastity 451
- Compromised Chastity 462
- Crossing Boundaries 476
- 6 Judgment and Nostalgia 480
- The Women of Yangzhou 480
- The Logic of Blame 485
- The Logic of Praise 498
- Remembering and Forgetting 519
- Second-Generation Memory 526
- The Elusive Femme Fatale 554
- Judgment and Redemption 568.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature,
- ISBN:
- 9781684170760
- 9780674492042
- OCLC:
- 999606463
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684170760 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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