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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Hardcover)
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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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The Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was
an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond;
political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural
production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese
Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space
commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men
writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well
as writings that turn women into a signifier through which authors
convey their lamentation, nostalgia, or moral questions for the
fallen Ming, the book delves into the mentality of those who
remembered or reflected on the dynastic transition, as well as
those who reinvented its significance in later periods. It shows
how history and literature intersect, how conceptions of gender
mediate the experience and expression of political disorder. Why
and how are variations on themes related to gender boundaries,
female virtues, vices, agency, and ethical dilemmas used to
allegorize national destiny? In pursuing answers to these
questions, Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of
women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and
psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and of subsequent
moments of national trauma.
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