Taiwan as a living museum: tropes of anachronism in late-imperial Chinese travel writing
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The use of the historical metaphor of anachronism for both denigration and idealization of the indigenous people of Taiwan in late-imperial Chinese travel writing is discussed. Topics include Chen Di and the rhetoric of primitivism, Qing colonial policy, Lin Qianguang and the rhetoric of privation, Yu Yonghe and the dual vision of the savages, 18th-century variations on the tropes of anachronism, 19th-century ethnohistoriography and the kaozheng project of restoring antiquity, Deng Chuan'an's search for antiquity in the wilderness, Wu Ziguang's supplement to the 'Fengsu tongyi,' and rhetorical representations of Taiwan in relation to Qing colonial policy.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1999
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From 'xiaoshuo' to fiction: Hu Yinglin's genre study of 'xiashuo.' (Chinese literature)
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Hu Yinglin (1551-1602) revised the definition of the Chinese literary genre 'xiaoshuo' through inductive analysis. 'Xiaoshuo' began as a class of brief, fragmentary, expository prose, but had devolved into a miscellaneous classification. Later the genre became identified with fiction, but in Hu's time it was a broader and more fluid genre. Hu's study, though limited by literary conformism, marked a transition between the bibliographers' and literary critics' approach to genre. Hu identified narrativity, literariness, and fictionality as significant traits of the genre.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1995
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Memory, mourning, and genre in the works of Yu Yue
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The relationship between memory, mourning, kinship ties and genre as evident in the works of writer Yu Yue is analyzed. Yu Yue used various genres like poetry, prose miscellanies and prefaces to document the losses of his wife and daughter, sometimes in their own words, and constructing specific places of memory.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2007
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