...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...

...Zong-qi Cai Abstract The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature from antiquity through modern times. It is of profound paradigmatic significance because each major reconceptualization of qing by literary writers and scholars almost invariably signifies...

...Cara Healey Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Lorenzo Andolfatto's Hundred Days' Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910 convincingly argues that the brief flourishing of utopian fiction ( wutuobang xiaoshuo 烏托邦小說) in the last decade of the Qing dynasty...

...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...

... century. Based on the Qing author Chen Sen's novel Precious Mirror for the Appreciation of Flowers (Pinhua baojian), Wu's version resorts to the figure of the male dan , often referred to as xianggong , to explore male same-sex intimacies, which were gaining increasing visibility in the 1990s Sinophone...

... 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...

... 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...

... for the Summer Heat , 86 ; translation modified. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 private public desire male homoeroticism Living across the dynastic transition from the Ming (1368–1644) to the Qing (1644–1912), the prolific writer Li Yu 李漁 (1610–1680) bore witness to an age when...

... Taiwanese literature and writing about Taiwan from the position of a colonial literature. Tsai focuses on the connection between Taiwanese literati, the majority of whom are of Hakka background, and a series of Chinese political formations, including the Ming, the Qing, the short-lived Republic of Taiwan...

... , 2004 . Ye Dehui 葉德輝 , ed. Shuangmei ying'an chongshu 雙梅影闇叢書 [ Book Series of Double Plums in Dark Shadow ]. Haikou : Hainan guoji xinwen chubanzhongxin , 1995 . Zhang Cixi 張次溪 , ed. Qingdai yandu liyuan shiliao 清代燕都梨園史料 [ Historical Materials of Liyuan from the Qing Capital ], 2...

... was not. 27 This Han lineage, however, maintained strong connections to the Manchu rulership over the generations. Biographical studies of Duanmu show that his great-grandfather became a “Banner man” and married a Manchu woman from a prosperous local family. 28 During the Qing dynasty, Banner men...

... novel magazine, and that his Haishanghua was the first serialized novel in Chinese literary history. Huayeliannong's transformation implies a radically altered author-reader relationship in the late Qing, which is partly the result of the much shortened cycle for a story's composition, publication...

... 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...

..., the prince, Lingyun, and Yishao. Both Lingyun and Yishao display unease about being misidentified as homosexual and the risk of their beloved brother falling prey to nanse . The work is much “under the influence of the cult of qing ” when depicting homosocial relations. 30 In the tales of nanse...

... . 14 Aside from Glissant, Françoise Lionnet's work has influenced both Sinophone Studies and oceanic studies. Glissant and Lionnet in turn both draw on Deleuze and rhizomatic modes of thought, as does Shu-mei Shih. 15 Rapongan, “Guanyu leng hai yu qing shen,” 11–12 . All translations...

..., 1200–1700 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2007 . Hostetler, Laura . Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2001 . Hu Siao-chen 胡曉真 . Ming-Qing wenxue zhong de xinan xushi 明清文學中的西南敘事...

... critical theory until the final section, it is written from a framework informed by Western discourses on emotion. Careful textual and contextual analysis has enabled me to discover multiple dimensions and roots of the evolving Chinese concepts of emotion, crystallized in the multivalence of the term qing...

... Narratives of Shanghai from Lives of Shanghai Flowers (1892) to Midnight (1933) .” PhD diss., Princeton University , 1998 . Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena . “ Typology of Plot Structures in Late Qing Novels .” In The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century , edited by Milena Doleželová...

... historical, archival, and literary materials, as well as newly discovered documents. A substantial contribution to late Qing intellectual history and globalization in the early twentieth century, Du Chunmei's 杜春媚 book is the first comprehensive study of Gu Hongming 辜鴻銘 (Ku Hung-ming, 1857–1928). Most studies...

... of conquest, oppression, and hegemony in such a way as to lose its historical specificity and critical rigor. For one thing, in view of the fact that the Qing is an empire established by the Manchus, who by Shih's definition should have been labeled a minority, how do we construe the paradox...