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Two centuries of Manchu women poets
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ISBN: 029599987X 9780295999876 9780295999869 0295999861 9780295745749 0295745746 Year: 2017 Publisher: Seattle

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"This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide fascinating insights into the experiences and emotions of these women, most of whom belonged to the elite families of Manchu society. Each selection is accompanied by biographical material that illuminates the life stories of the poets. The volume's introduction describes the printing history of the collections from which these poems are drawn, the authors' practice of poetry writing, ethnic and gender issues, and comparisons with the poetry of women in South China and of male authors of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911)." --publisher description.


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Novel Medicine : Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
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ISBN: 029580632X 9780295806327 9780295995182 0295995181 Year: 2016 Publisher: University of Washington Press

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"Printed novels, guides to daily life, and practical medical texts were relatively new in sixteenth-century China, but they quickly became popular and influential. Novel Medicine shows how fiction shaped and was shaped by medical discourse and how it popularized practical, vernacular kinds of knowledge. A vibrant exchange among literary, commercial, and medical spheres resulted in a web of texts that produced distinct genealogies of romantic and sexual disease, iconographic lineages of heroic doctors, and medicalized attitudes toward reading. Novel Medicine interrogates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge. Conversely, it demonstrates how practical medical texts employed literary devices and figurative strategies to propagate information. Employing interdisciplinary strategies, it examines the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine as well as their representations of illnesses and healers. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts, as well as sources such as fiction commentary, criticism, medical manuscripts, newspapers, essays, print images, and biographies inform an understanding of the body in early modern China. These readings also provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus on the 'literati' aspects of the novel, showing that these texts were not merely read, but were used by a wide variety of readers and for a range of purposes. This inquiry into the intersections of kinds and sources of knowledge--fictional and real, elite and vernacular--illuminates the history of reading and daily life and challenges us to rethink the nature of Chinese literature"--Provided by publisher.

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Chinese fiction --- Healing in literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- Diseases in literature. --- Medical literature --- Literature and society --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Life sciences literature --- Medicine --- Medical care in literature --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Social aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Medizin --- Chinesisch --- Literatur --- Qing Dynasty (China) --- Popular culture. --- Medical literature. --- Literature and society. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Chinese fiction. --- HISTORY --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Medical Writing --- Medicine in Literature. --- Chinese literature --- Language arts --- Elocution --- Hygiene --- Medical sciences --- Public health --- Technical writing --- Criticism --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Ming dynasty. --- Social aspects. --- Asian --- General. --- history. --- history --- Study and teaching --- Authorship --- Technique --- China. --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Guoyu --- Kuo-yü --- Putonghua --- P'u-t'ung-hua --- Mandarin --- Guanhua --- Kuanhua --- Nationalsprache --- Sinotibetische Sprachen --- Motiv --- 1949 --- -BNKhAU --- China --- Chung-hua min kuo --- Jhonggu --- Khi͡atad --- Kin --- Kita --- Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika --- National Government --- Republic --- Republic of China --- Zhonghuaminguo --- Asian history

The uses of literature : life in the socialist Chinese literary system
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ISBN: 0691001987 0691227845 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of "pure art." The Uses of Literature looks broadly and empirically at these and many other "uses" of literature from the points of view of authors, editors, political authorities, and several kinds of readers. Perry Link, author of Evening Chats in Beijing, considers texts ranging from elite "misty" poetry to underground hand-copied volumes (shouchauben) and shows in concrete detail how people who were involved with literature sought to teach, learn, enjoy, explore, debate, lead, control, and resist. Using the late 1970s and early 1980s as an entree to the workings of China's "socialist literary system," the author shows how that system held sway from 1950 until around 1990, when an encroaching market economy gradually but fundamentally changed it. In addition to providing a definitive overview of how the socialist Chinese literary system worked, Link offers comparisons to the similar system in the Soviet Union. In the final chapter, the book seeks to explain how the word "good" was used and understood when applied to literary works in such systems. Combining aspects of cultural and literary studies, The Uses of Literature will reward anyone interested in the literature of modern China or how creativity is affected by a "socialist literary system."

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S16/0170 --- S16/0195 --- S06/0436 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards literature and art --- Chinese literature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Socialism and literature --- China --- Literature and society --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese --- Litterature et societe --- Socialisme et litterature --- Litterature chinoise --- Chinesisch --- Politik --- Gesellschaft --- Literatur --- Sozialismus --- Socialism and literature. --- Literature and society. --- Chinese literature. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- China. --- Chinesisch. --- Akhmatova, Anna. --- Alyoshin, Samuil. --- Anhui province. --- Bai Hua. --- Bai Xianyong. --- Bell Tower Society. --- Bureau of Drama Reform. --- Cao Guanlong. --- Cao Xueqin. --- Chen Guokai. --- Chinese Academy of Sciences. --- Chinese Progress (journal). --- Christianity. --- Confucius. --- Dai minority people. --- Democracy Wall. --- Ehrenburg, Ilya. --- Fadeyev, Alexander. --- Feng Menglong. --- Gao Xiaosheng. --- Guo Moruo. --- Han Shaogong. --- Heavy Wings (Zhang Jie). --- Hiroshima. --- Hu Yaobang. --- Jiang Zilong. --- Jin Jingmai. --- Khrushchev Remembers. --- Khrushchev, Nikita. --- Kong Jiesheng. --- Li Yingru. --- Mao Zedong. --- Marxism-Leninism. --- May Fourth movement. --- Napoleon. --- Paustovsky, Konstantin. --- alienation. --- bookstores. --- bureaucratism. --- calligraphy. --- cartoonists. --- conservatives. --- corruption. --- decadence. --- democracy. --- engineering, literary. --- existentialism. --- feudalism. --- filmscripts. --- liberalism. --- neorealism. --- pluralism. --- Literature and socialism --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Sozialistisches Gesellschaftssystem --- Gesellschaftsordnung --- Kommunismus --- Sozialistische Bewegung --- Sozialist --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Sein --- Staatspolitik --- Politische Lage --- Politische Entwicklung --- Politische Situation --- Guoyu --- Kuo-yü --- Putonghua --- P'u-t'ung-hua --- Mandarin --- Guanhua --- Kuanhua --- Nationalsprache --- Sinotibetische Sprachen --- Littérature et socialisme --- Communisme et littérature --- Marxisme et littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Socialisme et culture --- Littérature --- Société et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Littérature et géographie --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Sociologie de la littérature --- Vie littéraire --- Féminisme et littérature --- Institution littéraire --- Psychologie sociale et littérature --- Aspect social --- 1949 --- -BNKhAU --- Chung-hua min kuo --- Jhonggu --- Khi͡atad --- Kin --- Kita --- Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika --- National Government --- Republic --- Republic of China --- Zhonghuaminguo --- Rotchina --- Zhongguo-Diguo --- Kaiserreich Zhongguo --- Zhonghua-minguo --- Chung-hua-min-kuo --- Zhonghua-Renmin-Gongheguo --- Kaiserreich China --- Shinkoku --- Chung-hua-jen-min-kung-ho-kuo --- Zhonghua --- Volksrepublik China --- Zhonghua renmin gongheguo --- République populaire de Chine --- Kytajsʹkaja Narodnaja Respublika --- Chinese People’s Republic --- Chinesen --- Taiwan

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