Heroic transformations: women and national trauma in early Qing literature

Article Abstract:

Literary representations of heroic women in early Qing literature are discussed in relation to the early-Qing critique of late-Ming sensibility and reassessment of the romantic-aesthetic realm. Topics include the female hero as reproach, female hero as apology, the female hero in relation to self-transformation, female virtue and the stage of history.

Women, Portrayals, Heroes, Heroes in literature

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The gift of a Python robe: The circulation of objects in Jin Ping Mei

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The ways in which the late sixteenth-century anonymous novel Jin Ping Mei relates the circulation of objects to the breakdown of normative social relations are examined. The illegal manufacture and illicit presentation of the python robe, a type of presentation robe second in status only to the imperial dragon robe, is discussed.

Jin Ping Mei (Novel)

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From bamboo slips to received versions: common features in the transformation of the Laozi

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The differences and similarities between the bamboo-slip versions of the Laozi and the silk and current versions are discussed. The transformation and distribution of the different versions of the Laozi are described.

Works, Theologians, LAOZI

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