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Dynastic crisis and cultural innovation: from the late Ming to the late Qing and beyond

Dynastic crisis and cultural innovation: from the late Ming to the late Qing and beyond
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ISBN 0674017811 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Title Dynastic crisis and cultural innovation : from the late Ming to the late Qing and beyond / David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei, editors
Publisher Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard University Asia Center ; distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005
Physical desc. x, 620, [12] p. ; ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Harvard East Asian monographs 249
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Introduction / David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei. -- Pt. 1: The late Ming and the early Qing: Texts, tutors, and fathers: pedagogy and pedants in Tang Xianzu's Mudan ting / Sophie Volpp. -- The making of the everyday world: Jin Ping Mei cihua and encyclopedias for daily use / Shang Wei. -- Women as emblems of dynastic fall in Qing literature / Wai-yee Li. -- The return of the palace lady: the historical ghost story and dynastic fall / Judith T. Zeitlin. -- The daughter's vision of national crisis: Tianyuhua and a woman writer's construction of the late Ming / Siao-chen Hu. -- Pt. 2: From the late late Ming to the early late Qing: Ethics of form: Qing and narrative excess in Guwangyan / Gan Gary Xu. -- Jinghua yuan: where the late late Ming meets the early late Qing / Ellen Widmer. -- Pt. 3: The late Qing: The coin of gender in Pinhua baojian / Carlos Rojas. -- The fall of the god of money: a Chinese account of opium addiction / Keith McMahon. -- The newspaper, zhiguai, and the sorcery epidemic of 1876 / Rania Huntington. -- A new mode of literary production in the late Qing: the invention of the installment plan / Alexander Des Forges. -- The narrator's voice before the "fiction revolution" / Patrick Hanan. -- Part 4: From the late Ming to the late Qing and beyond: Creating subjectivity in Wu Jianren's The sea of regret / Theodore Huters. -- The subject of pain / Dorothy Ko. -- Women's poetic witnessing: late Ming and late Qing examples / Kang-i Sun Chang. -- Conclusions: judgements on the ends of times / Robert E. Hegel. -- Second haunting / David Der-wei Wang.
Subject Chinese literature -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- History and criticism
Added name(s) Wang, Dewei ed.
Shang, Wei 1962- ed.
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