Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

近代中國文學中的女性與民族創傷

基本信息

Author：Wai-yee Li

Format：Hardback | 650 pages

Dimensions：158 x 236 x 46mm | 1,078g

Publication date：11 Aug 2014

Publisher：Harvard University Press

Language: English

ISBN10：0674492048

ISBN13：9780674492042

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書籍簡介

在17世紀的中國，明清王朝的過渡是一個劃時代的事件，它在清政府的著作中產生了深遠的影響;政治的混亂與活躍的文學文化生產是密不可分的。《近代中國文學中的女性與民族創傷》側重於女性主導的話語空間和想象空間，包括男性和女性寫作作品的女性聲音或假設女性身份,以及作品,把女人變成一個能指通過作者傳達他們的哀歌,懷舊,或道德問題了,這本書深入探究了心態的人記住或反映王朝的過渡,以及那些後期改造了它的重要性。它展示了歷史和文學是如何交叉的，性別的概念是如何調解政治混亂的經歷和表達的。

為什麼以及如何將與性別界限、女性美德、惡習、代理和倫理困境相關的主題變化來諷喻民族命運?為了尋求這些問題的答案，李慧儀探討了女性在不同體裁中的多重存在如何提供了一個窗口，讓我們得以瞭解明清時期的情感和心理動盪以及隨後的民族創傷時刻。

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.

作者簡介

李慧儀，哈佛大學中國文學教授。

Wai-yee Li is Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University.

目錄

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

1 Male Voices Appropriating Feminine Diction 12

Passing for a Woman 14

A Woman's Choices: Transparent and Hidden Analogies 25

Feminine Diction and Political Readings 32

Negotiating Political Choices 46

Forging Literary Communities through a Poetics of Indirectness 61

Revelations through Hiddenness 96

2 Female Voices Appropriating Masculine Diction 100

Revisiting Feminine Diction 101

The Terms of Historical Engagement 112

Heroes: Failures and Fantasies 130

When Is a Sword a Sword? 146

The Rhetoric of Friendship 157

Gender Discontent 171

Women on Writing 184

"Our Husband is China" 197

3 Heroic Transformations 201

Contexts of Literary History 203

The Daughter's Patrimony in an Age of Disorder 207

Female Hero as Indictment 230

Female Hero as Apology 241

Taming the Female Hero 254

Inventing the Female Hero 268

Female Heroes and National Salvation 293

4 The Fate of Pleasures and Passions 295

Defending Pleasures and Passions 296

Romantic Moralists 307

Writing About Women, Writing Women 314

Concubine as Martial Ghost: Wang Sun and Zhou Lianggong 319

Courtesan as Poet-Historian: Bian Sai and Wu Weiye 331

The Hidden Loyalist: Liu Rushi and Qian Qianyi 356

Salvageable Passions 387

5 Victimhood and Agency 391

The Discursive Space Defining the Abducted Woman 393

Variables of Poetic Traces 405

Private and Public Passions 429

Political and Apolitical Chastity 451

Compromised Chastity 462

Crossing Boundaries 476

6 Judgment and Nostalgia 480

The Women of Yangzhou 480

The Logic of Blame 485

The Logic of Praise 498

Remembering and Forgetting 519

Second-Generation Memory 526

The Elusive Femme Fatale 554

Judgment and Redemption 568

Aftermath 579

Works Cited 585

Index 617