Competing discourses : : orthodoxy, authenticity, and engendered meanings in late Imperial Chinese fiction /

Competing discourses : : orthodoxy, authenticity, and engendered meanings in late Imperial Chinese fiction / / Maram Epstein.

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 197
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Epstein, Maram.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2001.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 197.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Bibliogr. p. 315-339. Notes bibliogr. Index.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • i The Narrative Structures of Orthodoxy
  • Orthodox Constructions of Self 20/ Ritual, Yinyang
  • Cosmology, and the Construction of Gender 29/ Wen
  • and the Aesthetics of Orthodoxy 38 2 The Late Ming Reinterpretation of Human Nature
  • and the Gendering of Desire
  • The Paradoxical Meanings of Qing 62/ Subjective Qing Versus
  • the Objective Ideal in Orthodox Neo-Confucianism 65/ The
  • Late Ming Reformulation of Human Nature 69/ Li Zhi,
  • Desire, and Authenticity 74/ Ritual and Desire Reconciled
  • in Qing Thought 79/ From Philosophy to Fiction: The
  • Aesthetics of Qing 87 3 Xingshi yinyuan zhuan: Orthodoxy and the Making of the Shrew
  • Inversions of Orthodoxy: Xingshi and Failed Self-Cultivation 1a6/
  • Fox-Spirits and the Wounds of Self-Cultivation '35/ The
  • Shrew and Yinyang Symbolism I42 4 Reflections of Desire in Honglou meng
  • The Feminization of Baoyu's World 152/ Prospect Garden
  • and the Staging of Qing s55/ Desire and the Dissolution of
  • Ritual Identities 163/ Yinyang Numerology and the Precious
  • Mirror Chapters 173/ Responding to Discursive Ambiguity:
  • The Commentaries of Red Inkstone and Zhang Xinzhi i84 5 Expanding Orthodoxy: Narrative Excess and Expedient
  • Authenticity in Yesou puyan
  • Xia Jingqu and Yesou puyan 207/ Yinyang iconography in
  • Yesou puyan 215/ Yesou puyan and the Masculinization of the
  • Scholar-Beauty Genre 229/ Expediency, Qing, and the Ethics
  • of Sexuality 238 6 Heroic Women and Deficient Men in Jinghua yuan and
  • Ernu yingxiong zhuan
  • The Rule of Women inJinghua yuan 250/ Ernu yingxiong
  • zhuan: Playing with Gender/Genre 272 7 Conclusion: From the Symbolic to the Political
  • REFERENCE MATTER
  • Bibliogapby
  • Index.

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