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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Epstein, Maram, author.
Title: Orthodox passions : narrating filial love during the High Qing / Maram Epstein.
Other titles: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. | Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057859 | ISBN 9780674241176 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: China—History—Qing dynasty, 1644–1912—Sources. | Filial piety—China—History. | Filial piety in literature. | Chinese literature—Qing dynasty, 1644–1912.
Classification: LCC DS754.14.E67 2019 | DDC 306.8740951/0903—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018057859
An earlier version of the material on Yan Yuan and Li Gong in Chapter 6 was published as “Writing Emotions: Ritual Innovation as Emotional Expression,” in Nan nü 11, no. 2 (2009): 155–95, and is reproduced with permission.
Index by Jac Nelson
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