...Chun-Ting Chang Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi and Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late Qing China Ellen Widmer Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 329 pp. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 In this book examining the transition from traditional...

... that increasingly drifted away from its religious origins and became a public spectacle attended by people from different ethnicities. Together, these poems provide intricate and otherwise unavailable details of everyday life in late-colonial Java. They also reveal some of the anxieties faced by its Chinese...

...David Der-wei Wang Abstract This article seeks to analyze the contested conditions of modern and contemporary Chinese utopia, as a political treatise, a literary genre, and a social imaginary. It takes a historical perspective from which to describe the rise of utopia in the late Qing era...

... an era of sonic agitation to an aesthetics based on visual perception and contemplation. This rereading of Bei Dao's canonical poem and other related texts goes back to the late 1970s, when the political implications of the human senses were firmly grasped and heatedly debated. The author shows...

... in Greater China beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The article focuses in particular on four literary works dating from around 1994 that examine queer individuals in relation modern institutional structures associated with disciplines of biology/science, reportage/media, medicine/activism...

... ending” points to Wu's most radical departure from Chen's novel. The original novel's ending, where Ziyu lives happily ever after with both his wife and Qinyan, reaffirms the centrality of the “polygamous” patron-patronized relationship in the late imperial imagination of male-male relations. In contrast...

...Margaret Hillenbrand Abstract This article explores the relationship between precarity, waste, and the ragpicker in contemporary Chinese visual culture. It asks first why precarity has come so little and so late to the theoretical scene in China, a society in which precarious experience is so rife...

... in conversation with a wide array of other sources, first and foremost the middle and late Qing literary heritage that so greatly occupied and influenced Chang's own literary universe and pursuits, as well as the westernized literary milieu in which she lived and operated in 1940s Shanghai. Or will she...

...] was at the vanguard of late Qing utopian fiction) but also because both genre and movement were contradictory, transitional, short-lived, somewhat naive, and ultimately unsustainable. For Andolfatto, quoting Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science Fiction , utopia is “the verbal construction of a particular quasi...

... as interconnected strands in a world literature” (5). It is also an important resource because it showcases a large number of texts from the late Qing, which further deepens our understanding of the diversity and creativity of literary imagination at this time. To trace the creative cultural hybridity that gave...

..., Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion-Realms”) focuses on a late Ming moment and the dream plays of Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550–1616), especially Mudan ting 牡丹亭 (The Peony Pavilion). At first reading I worried that Lam was pinning his case for emotion as spatial on one line of one aria (in scene 12, “Pursuing...

..., Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China . 11 Mann, “Lady and the State.” 12 See Guo L., Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction . 13 Ding, “Imagined Concubinage” ; J. Guo, “From Patriarchal Polygamy to Conjugal Monogamy.” 14 On the circulation...

... societies (fictive kin bonds or bonds between surrogate brothers), and friendship (bonds between male friends).” These male bonds are achieved through “three grand structures or processes that framed human action in late imperial China: the family system, the civil service examination system, and patterns...

... ended, the young-man-from-the-provinces novel began. Whereas the Gothic novel depicted the historical end of the feudalism, the journey-to-the-city novel depicted the beginning of urbanism.” 68 In the late nineteenth century, China witnessed a similar process of urbanization, and if this process...

... Chuanji's The End of Liberalism as a Literary Ideal is an academic monograph that explores the highly dynamic literary field in China in the late 1940s, with a particular focus on liberalism as a literary ideal and its eventual inadequacy in that historical context. Based on meticulous research of a large...

... promise to Jifang of “see[ing] that [Chengxian] studied and continued the ambition of his late father” 我受你父親臨終之托,指望教你讀書成名,以承先人之志, 77 Ruilang thrice moves house to keep the son away from potential homoerotic pursuers. Having obtained the title of juren 舉人 (provincial graduate), Chengxian...

... of the book. For example, how the late-Tang poets, notably Du Mu 杜牧 (803–852), in the ninth century provided the Three Kingdoms and Red Cliff imaginaries with both a local perspective (Du wrote his famous Red Cliff poems while serving as governor of Huangzhou near the presumed historical site...

... On Zeng, see Hutt, “ Monstre Sacré .” On Chinese male writers impersonating female writers in the early twentieth century, see studies by contributors to the University of Heidelberg–led project on “Chinese women's magazines in the late Qing and early Republican period.” The editors note that “a trend...

..., it is meant to be a compilation of Sinophone writings since the late nineteenth century in multiple genres, including fiction, memoir, travelogue, gazette jottings, and folk songs, all instantiating the lived and imaginary experiences of Nanyang communities. In the meantime, in the spirit of fûdo...

... of bird training, the conflict between the son and the late father is symbolically resolved. According to the director, Mr. Six mainly concerns the dignity of ordinary people. 17 His narrative unpacks the issue of dignity primarily through the question and the reconfirmation of fatherhood...