Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

Acknowledgments
Note on Style and Excerpts
Introduction: Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Women's Literary Tanci
Chapter One: Vernacular Literacy, Cross-Dressing, and Feminine Authority in Zhu Suxian's Yulianhuan (Linked Rings of Jade)
Chapter Two: Among Women: Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu's Liuhuameng (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers)
Chapter Three: Gender, Syncretism, and Female Exemplarity: Jin Fangquan's Qizhenzhuan (A Tale of Exceptional Chastity)
Chapter Four: "Beyond Rouge and Powder": Rewriting Female Talent in Sun Deying's Jinyuyuan (Affinity of the Golden Fish)
Chapter Five: A New Romance of the Nation-State: On Wang Oushang's Zixuji (A Tale of Vacuity)
Conclusion
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres

Taiping Rebellion; social unrest; women’s political activism; female exceptionalism; Asian; social mobility; feminine narrative tradition; female autonomy; China; Confucian; protofeminism; protofeminist