| Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China: Bonds and Boundaries Contributor(s): Zhang, Yu (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498557856 ISBN-13: 9781498557856 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $127.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Chinese - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 895.134 |
| LCCN: 2017044495 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan (1843), Yu xuan cao (1894), and Jing zhong zhuan (1895), as interrelated texts composed by three generation of members from one extended gentry family in South China. Based on the framework of family bonds, this book uses the three tanci works, authored by a mother, her daughter, and a nephew, to examine the history of how the changing aesthetics of tanci developed over China's turbulent nineteenth century. It also demonstrates how the three writers used the genre of tanci to blur the boundaries of orthodox Confucian norms, in order to depict the evolving nature of gendered power relations at the dawn of China's modernity. |