Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction /

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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Main Author: Guo, Li (Writer on Chinese literature) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gender identity in literature.
Chinese literature > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Chinese.
Identite sexuelle dans la litterature.
Chinese literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Writing Gender
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Style and Excerpts
  • 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
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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