Writing gender in early modern Chinese women's tanci fiction /

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"Women's tanci, or "plucking rhymes," are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women&...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guo, Li (Writer on Chinese literature) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021]
Series:Comparative cultural studies.
Subjects:
Chinese literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism.
Narrative poetry, Chinese > Women authors > History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Women in literature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Littérature chinoise > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Chinese.
Women.
Feminist theory.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Literature: history & criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Women's Literary Tanci
  • Chapter One. Vernacular Literacy, Cross-Dressing, and Feminine Authority in Zhu Suxian's Yulianhuan (Linked Rings of Jade)
  • Chapter Two. Among Women : Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu's Liuhuameng (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers)
  • Chapter Three. Gender, Syncretism, and Female Exemplarity.: Jin Fangquan's Qizhenzhuan (A Tale of Exceptional Chastity)
  • Chapter Four. "Beyond Rouge and Powder" : Rewriting Female Talent in Sun Deying's Jinyuyuan (Affinity of the Golden Fish)
  • Chapter Five. A New Romance of the Nation-State : On Wang Oushang's Zixuji (A Tale of Vacuity)
  • Conclusion.

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