Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first
monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of
lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan
(1843), Yu xuan cao (1894), and Jing zhong zhuan (1895), as
interrelated texts composed by three generation of members from one
extended gentry family in South China. Based on the framework of
family bonds, this book uses the three tanci works, authored by a
mother, her daughter, and a nephew, to examine the history of how
the changing aesthetics of tanci developed over China's turbulent
nineteenth century. It also demonstrates how the three writers used
the genre of tanci to blur the boundaries of orthodox Confucian
norms, in order to depict the evolving nature of gendered power
relations at the dawn of China's modernity.
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