... intertextuality Chen Duansheng Without any desire to settle into conjugal bliss, Cross-dressed, she sets her will on repaying [the emperor] in whatever small way she can. 琴瑟無心偕伉儷,衣冠有志報涓埃。 —Chen, Zaisheng yuan , 57.797 The corpus of tanci 彈詞 novels written by women during the late imperial period...

... beloved. The author was Chen Duansheng 陳端生 (ca. 1751–96), a woman about whose life we still do not know much. Chen composed the first sixteen chapters of Love in Two Lives before she was twenty, then her writing came to a stop with family catastrophe: her husband was exiled to Xinjiang. She resumed her...

... the complicated ethnic dynamics of the Ming-Qing transition. In “ Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture,” Maram Epstein examines elite women's negotiation and transgression of gendered Confucian orthodoxy through a study of the tanci novel Zaisheng yuan written by Chen Duansheng 陳端生 (1751...

... express this sense. These are from Chen's 1954 heptasyllabic quatrains that mention the subject matter of Lun Zaisheng yuan . Chen finished the manuscript of Lun Zaisheng yuan in 1954 and began working on Liu Rushi bie zhuan . It is understandable if commentators gloss “the beauty” as Chen Duansheng 陳...

... Press , 1963 . Chen Duansheng 陳端生 (1751–1796), and Liang Desheng 梁德繩 (1771–1847). Zaisheng yuan 再生緣 ( The Destiny of Rebirth ), edited by Zhao Jingshen 趙景深 . Henan : Zhongzhou guji chubanshe , 1982 . Cheng Huiying 程蕙英 (19th century). Xinbian Feng shuangfei 新編鳳雙飛 ( Reedited...