Trauma and transcendence in early qing literature / edited by Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li, Ellen Widmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Wai-yee, editor.

Widmer, Ellen, editor.

Idema, W. L. (Wilt L.), editor.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 250.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 250

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:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2006]

Summary:

The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals, not only because of the many decades of destructive warfare but also because of the adjustments necessary to life under a foreign regime. History became a defining subject in their writings, and it went on shaping literary production in succeeding generations as the Ming continued to be remembered, re-imagined, and refigured on new terms.The twelve chapters in this volume and the introductory essays on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend the trauma of the transition years. By the end of the seventeenth century, the sense of trauma had diminished, and a mood of accommodation had taken hold. Varying shades of lament or reconciliation, critical or nostalgic retrospection on the Ming, and rejection or acceptance of the new order distinguish the many voices in these writings.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Wilt L. Idema , Wai-yee Li and Ellen Widmer

Introduction / Wai-yee Li

Confronting History and Its Alternatives in Early Qing Poetry / Wai-yee Li

History and Memory in Wu Weiye's Poetry / Wai-yee Li

Loyalism, Exile, Poetry / Lawrence C. H. Yim

Qian Qianyi and His Place in History / Kang-i Sun Chang

Introduction / Ellen Widmer

Mao Xiang and Yu Huai / Yasushi Ōki

Between Worlds / Ellen Widmer

Novelty, Character, and Community in Zhang Chao's Yu Chu xinzhi / Allan H. Barr

Fictional Reunions in the Wake of Dynastic Fall / Tina Lu

Dreaming the Past / Robert E. Hegel

Drama After the Conquest / Wilt L. Idema

"Crossing the Sea in a Leaking Boat" / Wilt L. Idema

Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His Aesthetics of Dynastic Transition / Dietrich Tschanz

Music and Performance in Hong Sheng's / Judith T. Zeitlin

"I Don't Want to Act as Emperor Any More" / Stephen Owen

Index / Wilt L. Idema , Wai-yee Li and Ellen Widmer

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Wilt L. Idema , Wai-yee Li and Ellen Widmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68417-415-5

OCLC:

644320866

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684174157 DOI