Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation
豆瓣
From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond
David Der-wei Wang / Shang Wei (Editors)
简介
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.
contents
Introduction David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei
Part I
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 93 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
Part II
From the Late Late Ming to the Early Late Qing Ethics of Form: Qing and Narrative Excess in Guwangyan Gang Gary Xu
Jinghua yuan: Where the Late Late Ming Meets the Early Late Qing Ellen Widmer
Part III
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 IV
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: Judgments on the Ends of Times Robert E. Hegel
Second Haunting David Der-wei Wang
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