Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond 0674017811, 9780674017818

This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550-1644) and late Qing (1851-1911) eras.

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English Pages 620 [644] Year 2006

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Table of contents :
Front Matter
Contents
Introduction
Part I
Texts, Tutors, and Fathers
The Making of the Everyday World
Women as Emblems of Dynastic Fall in Qing Literature
The Return of the Palace Lady
The Daughter's Vision of National Crisis
Part II
Ethics of Form
Jinghua yuan
Part III
The Coin of Gender in Pinhua baojian
The Fall of the God of Money
The Newspaper, zhiguai, and the Sorcery Epidemic of 1876
A New Mode of Literary Production in the Late Qing
The Narrator's Voice Before the "Fiction Revolution"
Part IV
Creating Subjectivity in Wu Jianren's The Sea of Regret
The Subject of Pain
Women's Poetic Witnessing
Conclusions
Second Haunting
Index

Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond
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