Cross-generic Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71082-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 168, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luo, Manling

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.