Rulin Waishi And Cultural Transformation In Late Imperial China
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Rulin Waishi And Cultural Transformation In Late Imperial China
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Author : Shang Wei
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Rulin Waishi And Cultural Transformation In Late Imperial China written by Shang Wei and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Wu Jingzi’s (1701–54) ironic portrait of literati life was unprecedented in its comprehensive treatment of the degeneration of mores, the predicaments of official institutions, and the Confucian elite’s futile struggle to reassert moral and cultural authority. Like many of his fellow literati, Wu found the vernacular novel an expressive and malleable medium for discussing elite concerns. Through a close reading of Rulin waishi, Shang Wei seeks to answer such questions as What accounts for the literati’s enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Does this enthusiasm bespeak a conscious effort to develop a community of critical discourse outside the official world? Why did literati authors eschew publication? What are the bases for their social and cultural criticisms? How far do their criticisms go, given the authors’ alleged Confucianism? And if literati authors were interested solely in recovering moral and cultural hegemony for their class, how can we explain the irony found in their works?
Popular Culture In Late Imperial China
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Author : David Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-02-25
Popular Culture In Late Imperial China written by David Johnson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-25 with History categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Printing And Book Culture In Late Imperial China
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Author : Cynthia J. Brokaw
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-03-07
Printing And Book Culture In Late Imperial China written by Cynthia J. Brokaw and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-07 with Art categories.
"A very useful book on a topic of growing importance and interest. Brokaw's introduction is one of the most valuable and best-written prefaces to an edited volume that I have encountered in some time."—Kent Guy, author of The Emperor's Four Treasures
Daoist Philosophy And Literati Writings In Late Imperial China
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Author : Zuyan Zhou
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2013-05-30
Daoist Philosophy And Literati Writings In Late Imperial China written by Zuyan Zhou and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Philosophy categories.
This volume first explores the transformation of Chinese Daoism in late imperial period through the writings of prominent intellectuals of the times. In such a cultural context, it then launches an indepth investigation into the Daoist dimensions of the Chinese narrative masterpiece, The Story of the Stone—the inscriptions of Quanzhen Daoism in the infrastructure of its religious framework, the ideological ramifications of the Daoist concepts of chaos, purity, and the natural, as well as the Daoist images of the gourd, fish, and bird. Zhou presents the central position of Daoist philosophy both in the ideological structure of the Stone, and the literati culture that engenders it.
Materials For An Anatomy Of Personality In Late Imperial China
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Author : Paolo Santangelo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-01-11
Materials For An Anatomy Of Personality In Late Imperial China written by Paolo Santangelo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, this volume, firmly based in textual sources, is a reflection on personality and its attributes in China. It discusses terms that express the propensity, inclinations, predispositions, and temperament of subjects, departing from the descriptions that represent one’s and the other’s self, as well as terms that describe or label a person's main qualities or defects. As judgments contribute to formulate the image of ourselves and others, when talking of personality not only individual characters (biological traits, cultural basis, innate and acquired traits and habits) are looked into, but also social values and collective mentality, as well as individual and group subjectivity.
Women And National Trauma In Late Imperial Chinese Literature
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Author : Wai-yee Li
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Women And National Trauma In Late Imperial Chinese Literature written by Wai-yee Li and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well as writings that turn women into a signifier through which authors convey their lamentation, nostalgia, or moral questions for the fallen Ming, the book delves into the mentality of those who remembered or reflected on the dynastic transition, as well as those who reinvented its significance in later periods. It shows how history and literature intersect, how conceptions of gender mediate the experience and expression of political disorder. Why and how are variations on themes related to gender boundaries, female virtues, vices, agency, and ethical dilemmas used to allegorize national destiny? In pursuing answers to these questions, Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming–Qing transition and of subsequent moments of national trauma. 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Dynastic Crisis And Cultural Innovation
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Author : David Der-wei Wang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Dynastic Crisis And Cultural Innovation written by David Der-wei Wang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550–1644) and late Qing (1851–1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern imagination; and to rethink the “premodernity” of the late Ming and late Qing in the context of the end of the age of modernism. The chapters touch on a remarkably wide spectrum of works, some never before discussed in English, such as poetry, drama, full-length novels, short stories, tanci narratives, newspaper articles, miscellanies, sketches, familiar essays, and public and private historical accounts. More important, they intersect on issues ranging from testimony about dynastic decline to the negotiation of authorial subjectivity, from the introduction of cultural technology to the renewal of literary convention."
A Social History Of The Chinese Book
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Author : Joseph Peter McDermott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
A Social History Of The Chinese Book written by Joseph Peter McDermott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Books and reading categories.
The history of the book in China from 1000 to 1800. The author compares the Chinese experience with books with that of other civilizations, particularly the European.
The Cambridge History Of Chinese Literature
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Author : Kang-i Sun Chang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Cambridge History Of Chinese Literature written by Kang-i Sun Chang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Chinese literature categories.
Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.
The Cambridge History Of Chinese Literature From 1375
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Author : Kang-i Sun Chang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Cambridge History Of Chinese Literature From 1375 written by Kang-i Sun Chang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Chinese literature categories.
Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.