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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature / Wai-yee Li.

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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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