UID:
almafu_9961673537402883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
1-68417-351-5
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 197
Note:
Bibliogr. p. 315-339. Notes bibliogr. Index.
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Machine generated contents note: Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- i The Narrative Structures of Orthodoxy -- Orthodox Constructions of Self 20/ Ritual, Yinyang -- Cosmology, and the Construction of Gender 29/ Wen -- and the Aesthetics of Orthodoxy 38 2 The Late Ming Reinterpretation of Human Nature -- and the Gendering of Desire -- The Paradoxical Meanings of Qing 62/ Subjective Qing Versus -- the Objective Ideal in Orthodox Neo-Confucianism 65/ The -- Late Ming Reformulation of Human Nature 69/ Li Zhi, -- Desire, and Authenticity 74/ Ritual and Desire Reconciled -- in Qing Thought 79/ From Philosophy to Fiction: The -- Aesthetics of Qing 87 3 Xingshi yinyuan zhuan: Orthodoxy and the Making of the Shrew -- Inversions of Orthodoxy: Xingshi and Failed Self-Cultivation 1a6/ -- Fox-Spirits and the Wounds of Self-Cultivation '35/ The -- Shrew and Yinyang Symbolism I42 4 Reflections of Desire in Honglou meng -- The Feminization of Baoyu's World 152/ Prospect Garden -- and the Staging of Qing s55/ Desire and the Dissolution of -- Ritual Identities 163/ Yinyang Numerology and the Precious -- Mirror Chapters 173/ Responding to Discursive Ambiguity: -- The Commentaries of Red Inkstone and Zhang Xinzhi i84 5 Expanding Orthodoxy: Narrative Excess and Expedient -- Authenticity in Yesou puyan -- Xia Jingqu and Yesou puyan 207/ Yinyang iconography in -- Yesou puyan 215/ Yesou puyan and the Masculinization of the -- Scholar-Beauty Genre 229/ Expediency, Qing, and the Ethics -- of Sexuality 238 6 Heroic Women and Deficient Men in Jinghua yuan and -- Ernu yingxiong zhuan -- The Rule of Women inJinghua yuan 250/ Ernu yingxiong -- zhuan: Playing with Gender/Genre 272 7 Conclusion: From the Symbolic to the Political -- REFERENCE MATTER -- Bibliogapby -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-00512-0
Language:
English
