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Author:   Li Guo
Publisher:   Purdue University Press
Imprint:   Purdue University Press
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781612496412

ISBN 10:   1612496415
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   30 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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"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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Li Guo teaches Chinese language, literature, culture, and Asian literatures at Utah State University. Her interests in scholarship include late imperial and modern Chinese women's narratives, folk literature, film, and comparative literature. Guo's research displays an interdisciplinary approach, bridging women and gender studies, narrative theory, vernacular literatures and cultures, bringing an innovative perspective to traditional, text-based analysis of tanci fiction. She is the author of Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China.

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