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Cross-Generic Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Literature
Series: - Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 168
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This volume explores cross-generic analysis as a hermeneutic approach to traditional Chinese literature through nine case studies, which cover a combined temporal span from the tenth to the twentieth century.
The contributors examine connections, parallels, and dialogic relations among canonical literary forms and other kinds of materials, both diachronically and synchronically, across and within texts, and between different modes of representation. A wide range of theoretical issues are elucidated, including cultural memory, gender, sexuality, visuality, theatricality, and regional identity. Expanding conventional understanding of what constitutes the literary, these studies also complicate and contribute to intellectual discourses beyond China studies.
The contributors examine connections, parallels, and dialogic relations among canonical literary forms and other kinds of materials, both diachronically and synchronically, across and within texts, and between different modes of representation. A wide range of theoretical issues are elucidated, including cultural memory, gender, sexuality, visuality, theatricality, and regional identity. Expanding conventional understanding of what constitutes the literary, these studies also complicate and contribute to intellectual discourses beyond China studies.
Manling Luo, Ph.D. (2005, Washington University in St. Louis), is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Indiana University. Her publications include Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2015) and various articles in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Cross-Generic Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Literature
Manling Luo
1 Recycling Mosaic Memory: The Afterlife of Anecdotes about the Kaiyuan-Tianbao Era
Manling Luo
2 Harbinger of Spring: The Plum Blossom and Late Imperial Women Writers
Yanning Wang
3 Narrow Eyes, Long Earlobes, and Rough Skin: Physiognomy and Delighting in Personality in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin
Mei Chun
4 How to Stage a Prop: The Ceramic Pillow in The Story of Handan
Jing Zhang
5 Negotiating Masculinity and Imaging Male-Male Erotic Relationships:
A Study of the Seventeenth-Century Illustrated Fiction Collection Between Caps and Hairpins
Wei Wang
6 A Seventeenth-Century Parodist and His First Reader: Fiction, Fiction Commentary, and Their Readers in Late Imperial China
Jie Zhang
7 The Novelistic and the Dramatic: Generic Tension and Complementarity in Dream of the Red Chamber
Qiancheng Li
8 From Sentiment to Domestic Order: Women Rewriting Dream of the Red Chamber
Maram Epstein
9 Gender, Genre, and Locality: A Solicited Collection of Poetry by Notable Women from Anhui, 1936
Xiaorong Li
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Cross-Generic Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Literature
Manling Luo
1 Recycling Mosaic Memory: The Afterlife of Anecdotes about the Kaiyuan-Tianbao Era
Manling Luo
2 Harbinger of Spring: The Plum Blossom and Late Imperial Women Writers
Yanning Wang
3 Narrow Eyes, Long Earlobes, and Rough Skin: Physiognomy and Delighting in Personality in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin
Mei Chun
4 How to Stage a Prop: The Ceramic Pillow in The Story of Handan
Jing Zhang
5 Negotiating Masculinity and Imaging Male-Male Erotic Relationships:
A Study of the Seventeenth-Century Illustrated Fiction Collection Between Caps and Hairpins
Wei Wang
6 A Seventeenth-Century Parodist and His First Reader: Fiction, Fiction Commentary, and Their Readers in Late Imperial China
Jie Zhang
7 The Novelistic and the Dramatic: Generic Tension and Complementarity in Dream of the Red Chamber
Qiancheng Li
8 From Sentiment to Domestic Order: Women Rewriting Dream of the Red Chamber
Maram Epstein
9 Gender, Genre, and Locality: A Solicited Collection of Poetry by Notable Women from Anhui, 1936
Xiaorong Li
Index
Scholars of Chinese literature, culture, and history and educated readers who are interested in the Chinese literary tradition.