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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Yu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--History and criticism.

Chinese fiction.

Chinese literature--Women authors.

Chinese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.

Summary:

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 3, 2018).

ISBN:

1-4985-5786-4